A RARE PAINTED CIZHOU 'DOUBLE FISH' PILLOW

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A RARE PAINTED CIZHOU 'DOUBLE FISH' PILLOW
SONG DYNASTY

Of bean shape with canted corners, covered overall with a creamy white glaze and boldly painted on top in brown with two carp swimming admist aquatic plants below two butterflies hovering above, all within a brown double-line border along the edge, glaze flakes
12in. (30.5cm.) long, box

Provenance

The T. Y. Chao Family Collection, sold in Hong Kong, 19 May 1987, lot 221

Lot Essay

Cf. a Cizhou pillow also painted with two fish but of a different shape in the Yamato Bunkakan, illustrated in So Gen no Bijutsu, pl. 24; and again in the Venice exhibition Chinese Art, Catalogue, 1954, no. 950.

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