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PROPERTY FROM A JAPANESE PRIVATE COLLECTION
A RUSSET-SPLASHED BLACK-GLAZED
PILLOW
SONG DYNASTY
of kidney shape, veiled overall save for the base with a black
glaze, picked out with russet spots on the concave top
24.3 cm, 9⅝ in.
HK$ 70,000-90,000
US$ 9,000-11,500
Compare a related pillow sold in our New York rooms, 1st
June 1994, lot 267; and another with a lighter body colour
and a more regular distribution of russet spots, exhibited in
Song Ceramics from the Kwan Collection, Hong Kong Museum
of Art, Hong Kong, 1994, cat. no. 24. See also a pillow from
the collection of Edward T. Chow, illustrated in Regina Krahl,
Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, London,
1994, vol. 1, no. 464.
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