A Collecting Journey: The Jane and Leopold Swergold Collection
An inscribed rectangular painted 'Cizhou' 'figural' pillow, Yuan dynasty
Auction Closed
March 19, 05:41 PM GMT
Estimate
30,000 - 50,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
with a three-character inscription Zhangjia zao (made by the Zhang family)
Length 17⅝ in., 44.9 cm
Kaikodo, New York, 13th November 2001.
Kaikodo Journal, XX, Autumn 2001, pp 259 and 372-374, pl. 86.
Compare a related example with the same inscription, dated to the Song dynasty, in the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum: Porcelain of the Song Dynasty (I), Hong Kong, 1996, pl. 154; and a Jin dynasty Cizhou pillow, also from the Zhang Family Workshop and decorated with a lobed cartouche enclosing a military scene, preserved in the British Museum, London (accession. no. 1936,1012.165).