Lot 1084
1084
A LARGE CARVED CIZHOU GREEN-GLAZED RUYI-SHAPED PILLOW
A LARGE CARVED CIZHOU GREEN-GLAZED RUYI-SHAPED PILLOW
A LARGE CARVED CIZHOU GREEN-GLAZED RUYI-SHAPED PILLOW
A LARGE CARVED CIZHOU GREEN-GLAZED RUYI-SHAPED PILLOW
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Collector/Connoisseur: The Max N. Berry Collections
A LARGE CARVED CIZHOU GREEN-GLAZED RUYI-SHAPED PILLOW

SONG-JIN DYNASTY (AD 960-1234)

Details
A LARGE CARVED CIZHOU GREEN-GLAZED RUYI-SHAPED PILLOW
SONG-JIN DYNASTY (AD 960-1234)
14 5⁄8 in. (37.2 cm.) wide, cloth box
Provenance
Kaikodo, New York, 15 March 2011.
Literature
Kaikodo Journal, New York, Spring 2011, pp. 46-7 and p. 157, no. 11.

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Lot Essay

The present cloud or ruyi-shaped pillow is finely carved on the top with a single, large peony flower framed by the trailing leafy stem, with the top and sides of the pillow covered in a green glaze. For a comparable green-glazed pillow of ruyi-shape and dated to Jin dynasty, see Chinese Ceramic Pillows: The Mr. and Mrs. Yeung Wing Tak Gift, Hong Kong, 1993, pl.130. Another Cizhou green-glazed pillow from the Song-Jin dynasty, of oblong form, from The Collection of Robert Hatfield Ellsworth, was sold at Christie’s New York, 20 March 2015, lot 847.

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