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AN EXTREMELY RARE MOLDED SANCAI 慹军⃫ġġġᶱ⼑㜦ᶳ奨㾹⚾㜽
‘CIZHOU’ PILLOW
娑㔯烉
JIN - YUAN DYNASTY 㞛⠀㗍㯜㻓ġ剙⠊⢽春怚
of rectangular section with a slightly concave sloping top, Ը๕
the top surface with a central panel Þ nely incised with a lady 丕Ⱉ漵㱱➪炻㜙Ṕ
leaning against the branch of a pine tree beside a lotus pond
攟⯦伶埻棐炻㜙Ṕ炻棐啷䶐嘇144
with a waterfall cascading from rockwork, framed on either ↢⃱伶埻棐炻㜙Ṕ
side by a Þ ve-character couplet, the two long sides molded
and carved with a mythical beast striding amidst lotus ᷕ⚳昞䒟伶埻棐炻ḅⶆ
ß owers and pads, the short sides with ß oral motifs, all richly ࢝ᚎ
applied and detailed with sancai glazes, the base unglazed ˪⬳ẋ̯昞䡩˫炻↢⃱伶埻棐炻㜙Ṕ炻1979⸜炻
Width 14⅞ in., 37.8 cm
䶐嘇115
PROVENANCE ̈و
Mayuyama & Co. Ltd., Tokyo. ˪ᷕ⚥昞䡩烉↢⃱伶埻棐哝⑩⚛抬˫炻⌟3炻
Nagao Art Museum, Tokyo, acc. no. 144. 㜙Ṕ炻1987⸜炻⚾䇰560
Idemitsu Museum of Arts, Tokyo.
Chinese Ceramics Museum, Kyushu.
EXHIBITED
Sodai no tōji [Song ceramics], Idemitsu Museum of Arts,
Tokyo, 1979, cat. no. 115.
LITERATURE
Idemitsu Bijutsukan zhin zuroku. Chugoku toji / Chinese
Ceramics in the Idemitsu Collection, vol. 3. Tokyo, 1987,
pl. 560.
$ 60,000-80,000

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