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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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