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

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.