J.J. Lally & Co., Oriental Art / New York City, New York
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The Gordon Collection:
Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art
March 12 - April 4, 2009
44.
A PAINTED CIZHOU POTTERY PILLOW
Song Dynasty (A.D. 960-1279)
of elongated octagonal outline and bean shape, with concave platform top to serve as a headrest, boldly painted in iron pigment of rich chocolate-brown tone with a loosely tied spray of lotus, sagittaria and pond grass, highlighted with lightly incised linear and combed details, and enclosed within multiple borders, the steep facetted sides decorated with quickly brushed foliate motifs in the same dark brown pigment, all applied over a cream-white slip ground.
Length 10 1⁄4 inches (26.2 cm)
From the Collection of Samuel T. Peters (1854-1921), New York
From the Collection of Rudolph Shaeffer (1886-1988), California
Published:
Mowry, ‘Chinese Ceramics from the Collection of Dr. and Mrs. Marvin L. Gordon,’ Orientations, March 2004, fig. 3, p.117
Compare the painted Cizhou pillow of very similar form decorated with similar foliate motifs on the sides and with matching borders, but with a peony spray on top, illustrated by Wirgin, Sung Ceramic Designs, B.M.F.E.A., No. 42, Stockholm, 1970, pl. 47f, from the Royal Ontario Museum.
宋 磁州白地褐彩蓮花紋陶枕 長 26.2 厘米
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44.
A PAINTED CIZHOU POTTERY PILLOW
Song Dynasty (A.D. 960-1279)
Length 10 1⁄4 inches (26.2 cm)