A russet-splashed black-glazed pillow, Northern Song / Jin dynasty

Japanese Private Collection.

Sotheby's Hong Kong, 29th-30th November 2018, lot 396.

Compare a related pillow formerly in the collection of Edward T. Chow, published in Regina Krahl, Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, vol. 1, London, 1994, pl. 464; one in the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia (accession no. 1923-21-260), from the George Crofts Collection and donated by Charles H. Ludington in 1923, illustrated on the Museum's website; a third example, included in the Inaugural Exhibition, Museum of East Asian Art, Bath, 1993, cat. no. 90; and another with a lighter body color and a more regular distribution of russet spots, exhibited in Song Ceramics from the Kwan Collection, Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong, 1994, cat. no. 24.