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PROPERTY FROM A JAPANESE PRIVATE COLLECTION
A CIZHOU FIGURAL PILLOW
SONG–JIN DYNASTY

of rectangular form, the top painted in brown over a creamy-
white slip with a military scene within a shaped cartouche
reserved on a floral ground, the sides with floral cartouches,
the base with a mark reading guxiang Zhang jia zao
40.5 cm, 16 in.
HK$ 30,000-50,000 Other View
US$ 3,850-6,400
A related Cizhou pillow, also with a Zhang jia zao mark, is in the
Beijing Palace Museum, illustrated in The Complete Collection
of Treasures of the Palace Museum: Porcelain of the Song
Dynasty (I), Hong Kong, 1996, pl. 154. Compare also a Jin
dynasty Cizhou pillow, also from the Zhang Family Workshop
and similarly decorated with a lobed cartouche enclosing a
military scene, in the British Museum, London, museum no.
1936,1012.165.
金至宋 磁州白地黑彩人物圖枕
《古相張家造》款
Mark

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