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PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE AMERICAN COLLECTION
A kidney-shaped Cizhou 'peony' pillow
Northern Song Dynasty Of ogival outline, the lobed top carved through a cream glaze in reserve with a very boldly conceived single peony spray with three large leaves exposing the clear-glazed dark beige body below within a cartouche which mirrors the pillow form, the glaze covering the top and sides and stopping unevenly above the shaped un-glazed base. 11in (28cm) across
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北宋 磁州窯牡丹紋枕For another so-called Kidney-shaped pillow carved with a single flower-head with lotus pads reserved on a dark beige ground, see Gugong Bowuyuan Cang Wenwu Zhenpin Quanji (The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum) Porcelain of the Song Dynasty (I),Hong Kong, 1996, p. 195, no. 177. For another example with two peony flower-heads reserved on a similar ground, see Christie's, Hong Kong, 11 October 2017, lot 344 and also published in Dream Quest: The Mark Lam Collection of Chinese Ceramic Pillows, Shanghai, 2008, pl. 25.
