A painted 'Cizhou' 'floral' tiger-form pillow, Northern Song / Jin dynasty | 北宋 / 金 磁州窰虎形枕

Japanese Private Collection.

Sotheby's Hong Kong, 29th November 2018, lot 397.

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日本私人收藏

香港蘇富比2018年11月29日，編號397

Chinese Ceramics Tang to Song, Marchant, London, 2022, cat. no. 28.

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《中國陶瓷：由唐至宋》，馬錢特，倫敦，2022年，編號28

Pillows of this amusing tiger form are known to have been made by kilns in Henan province. A similar piece, painted with longer strips on the tiger body, excavated from the Juntai kiln site in Yuzhou, Henan province, was exhibited in Ceramic Finds from Henan, University Museum and Art Gallery, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 1997, cat. no. 77.

Compare a closely related tiger-form pillow, also painted with shorter brushstrokes but on white ground, sold at our London rooms, 11th December 1984, lot 203. See examples painted with longer strips: one from the Avery Brundage Collection, in the Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, is illustrated in Mary Tregear, Song Ceramics, London, 1982, p. 82, no. 79; another in the Victoria and Albert Museum, illustrated in Rose Kerr, Song Dynasty Ceramics, London, 2004, pl. 70; two in Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum: Porcelain of the Song Dynasty (I), vol. 32, Hong Kong, pls 209 and 211; six further tiger pillows are in the Yeung Wing Tak Collection, exhibited in Chinese Ceramic Pillows from the Yeung Wing Tak Collection, Museum of Oriental Ceramics, Osaka, 1984, cat. nos 80-85.