A FINELY-CARVED AND VERY RARE CIZHOU PILLOW

细节

A FINELY-CARVED AND VERY RARE CIZHOU PILLOW
NORTHERN SONG/JIN DYNASTY

Of quatrefoil shape with a sloping sunken top, carved through thick cream slip to the gritty brown body with interlocking cash surrounded by scrolling foliage
7 1/2 in. (19 cm.) wide, box

拍品专文

Although cizhou sgraffiato is one of the most popular types of decoration on pottery pillows of the Song Dynasty, the shape and decoration of this pillow makes it an extremely rare design. Cf. a pillow with a more knobbed scroll around the sides included in the exhibition, Song Ceramics from the Kwan Collection, Catalogue, no. 141.

(US$11,000-16,000)