A rare molded Qingbai 'boy and dragon' pillow, Northern Song dynasty

The Dream Quest Collection.

Sotheby's Hong Kong, 27th May 2021, lot 435.

Lin Baozhao and Kong Chao (ed.), Dream Quest: The Mark Lam Collection of Chinese Ceramic Pillows, Shanghai, 2008, pl. 1.

Stuart Marchant, Marchant - One Hundred Years, Volume II: 2001-2025, London, 2025, p. 469, no. 1955.

Compare a closely related example with three boys playing on the top and the side molded with a dragon, from the Eumorfopoulos Collection, now in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, illustrated in Sekai Toji Zenshu [Ceramic Art of the World], vol. 12, Tokyo, 1977, figs 34 and 35; see another example with three boys playing on the top, illustrated in Chinese Ceramics From Yeung Wing Tak Collection, The Museum of Oriental Ceramics, Osaka, 1984, p. 63, no. 125. For auction examples, see one sold in our Hong Kong rooms, 24th November 1981, lot 19; another sold in these rooms, 7th December 1983, lot 232.