SONG-JIN DYNASTY, 11TH-EARLY 12TH CENTURY

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A CIZHOU STAMP-DECORATED CREAM-GROUND QUADRILOBED PILLOW
SONG-JIN DYNASTY, 11TH-EARLY 12TH CENTURY
The pillow is covered in a white slip and has stamped decoration in brown iron pigment under a clear glaze, the top with a peony design within a band of small florets bordered by double lines, and the tall sides with similar florets below a band of small circles.
8 ¾ in. (22.3 cm.) wide

Provenance

The Walter Hochstadter (1914-2007) Collection, and thence by descent to the present owner.

Lot Essay

A very similar pillow from the Arthur M. Sackler Collection is illustrated by Y. Mino and K. R. Tsiang in Freedom of Clay and Brush through Seven Centuries in Northern China: Tz'u-chou Type Wares, 960-1600 A.D., Indianapolis Museum of Art, 1980, pp. 80-1, pl. 28, where the authors note that the Sackler pillow is unusual in having floral decoration on top rather than the more usual stamped deer decoration, several examples of which are illustrated.

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