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PROPERTY FROM A JAPANESE PRIVATE
COLLECTION
A CIZHOU ‘TIGER’ PILLOW AND
A ‘BIRD’ TIGER-FORM PILLOW
JIN DYNASTY

the first of ruyi-head shape, the top painted in
brown slip with a tiger against a cream ground,
Zhang jia zao mark; the other modelled as a
recumbent tiger, the upper surface painted with
a bird
26.3 and 24 cm, 10⅜ and 9½ in.
HK$ 30,000-50,000
US$ 3,850-6,400

See a similar Cizhou ‘tiger’ pillow 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. 158. Other View
金 磁州臥虎圖枕
《張家造》款 及
鳥圖虎形枕

72 SOTHEBY’S 蘇富比