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PROPERTY FROM THE JUNKUNC PROVENANCE
COLLECTION
Warren E. Cox, New York, 23rd October 1957.
A RECTANGULAR PAINTED ‘CIZHOU’ Collection of Stephen Junkunc, III (d. 1978).
PILLOW, Rectangular pillows Þ nely painted with narrative
JIN - YUAN DYNASTY, BY WANG scenes within lobed, shaped cartouches
SHOUMING reserved against dense ß oral grounds were
produced during the thirteenth and fourteenth
of rectangular section with a slightly concave centuries. Wang Shouming is believed to have
sloping top, delicately painted in brown over produced pillows in Cixian, Hebei province
a creamy-white slip with a military o& cial during the Jin dynasty. Compare another
approaching a scholar seated in an open pillow by Wang Shouming in the British
pavilion, with their attendants, within a shaped Museum, London, purchased from George
cartouche reserved on a ß oral ground, with Eumorfopoulos in 1936, acc. no. 1936,1012.219.
two quatrefoil panels enclosing an inscription
reading Zhangbin Yiren zhi (‘Made by the idler $ 20,000-30,000
of the bank of the Zhang’), the sides with similar
panels enclosing peony and lotus sprays, 慹军⃫ġġġ䡩ⶆ䩘䘥⛘湹剙攳⃱攺⹕
reserved on ß oral grounds, the unglazed base ㊄⍳⚾䒟㜽
with an impressed mark reading Wang shi
Shouming, and with an inscription written in ˪㻛㾙忠Ṣ墥˫˪䌳㮷⢥㖶˫㫦
black ink dated to the twenty-Þ rst day in the
⡐㚠烉
twelfth month of the eleventh year of Zhizheng,
军㬋⋩ᶨ⸜⋩Ḵ㚰Ḵ⋩ᶨ㖍姀媪娴媠婾婆
corresponding to 1351
Width 17⅜ in., 44.1 cm Ը๕
WarrenġEįġCox炻䲸䲬炻1957⸜10㚰23㖍
⎚吪剔ɀ䑲偗ᶱᶾ炷1978⸜必炸㓞啷

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