Lot 89
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AN INSCRIBED CIZHOU-TYPE GREEN-GLAZED PILLOW WITH MARBLED DECORATION
AN INSCRIBED CIZHOU-TYPE GREEN-GLAZED PILLOW WITH MARBLED DECORATION
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AN INSCRIBED CIZHOU-TYPE GREEN-GLAZED PILLOW WITH MARBLED DECORATION

EARLY NORTHERN SONG DYNASTY, 10TH-11TH CENTURY

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AN INSCRIBED CIZHOU-TYPE GREEN-GLAZED PILLOW WITH MARBLED DECORATION
EARLY NORTHERN SONG DYNASTY, 10TH-11TH CENTURY
The fan-shaped pillow is decorated to the top with roundels of marbled black and white clay, reserved against a ground with sylised florettes in black, repeated on the sides of the pillow, covered overall with a bright transparent green glaze. The base is inscribed with the characters Pei jia hua zhen, ‘pillow by the Pei Family’.
10 1/2 in. (26.7 cm.) wide, box

Lot Essay

A green-glazed pillow made in very similar decorative technique and bearing similar motifs is in the Shenzhen Museum, illustrated in Dated Ceramics of the Song, Liao and Jin Periods, Beijing, 2004, col. pl. 12. Acccording to page 40 to 41 of this publication, a number of similar pillows are known, some bearing the inscription ‘pillow by the Pei Family’ or ‘pillow by the Du Family’. It has been suggested that this group of pillows was made in the kilns in Henan.

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