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A RARE SANCAI-GLAZED EXHIBITED 金 三彩釉豹形枕
STONEWARE ‘LEOPARD’S HEAD’ Freedom of Clay and Brush through Seven
PILLOW Centuries in Northern China. Tz’u-chou Type 銘文「此去邪避惡」
JIN DYNASTY Wares, 960-1600 AD, Indianapolis Museum of
Art, Indianapolis, 1980-81 (late inclusion in the 來源
naturalistically modelled and glazed as a 拉荷亞博物館收藏，拉荷亞，加州
leopard head with large bulging eyes and exhibition, without catalogue entry). 洛杉磯蘇富比1976年6月7至10日，
flaring nostrils, the green-glazed semi-circular Oriental Art. Works of Art from China, Japan,
dished top incised with a fish within cash diaper 編號1435
and foliate scroll bands, the back inscribed India and Southeast Asia, Georges Gallery, 倫敦蘇富比1980年7月15日，編號47
under the glaze ci que xie bi e (which may be Melbourne, 1981, cat. no. 21. Jane Carnegie收藏，墨爾本
translated as a wish to evade harm and avoid China without Dragons. Rare Pieces from 展覽
Oriental Ceramic Society Members, London,
evil) 2016, cat. no. 18. 《Freedom of Clay and Brush through Seven
21.5 cm, 8½ in.
Centuries in Northern China. Tz’u-chou
LITERATURE
PROVENANCE Type Wares, 960-1600 AD.》，印第安納波
Mary Redfern, ‘China Without Dragons. An
Collection of the La Jolla Museum of Art, 利斯藝術博物館，印第安納波利斯，
La Jolla, California. Exhibition Presented by the Oriental Ceramic 1980-81年 (無圖錄記載)
Sotheby’s Los Angeles, 7th-10th June 1976, Society’, Arts of Asia, November-December
lot 1435. 2016, p. 159, fig. 3. 《Oriental Art. Works of Art from China,
Sotheby’s London, 15th July 1980, lot 47. Pillows in the form of leopards were believed Japan, India and Southeast Asia》，
Collection of Jane Carnegie, Melbourne. to be capable of warding off evil spirits, as
suggested in the Jiu Tangshu (Old History of Georges Gallery，墨爾本，1981年，編號21
the Tang Dynasty), compiled during the Later
Jin dynasty (1616-1636), and exemplified by the 《龍隱: 東方陶瓷學會會員珍稀藏品展》，
inscription on the present piece. 倫敦蘇富比，2016年，編號18
出版
‡ £ 25,000-35,000
HK$ 257,000-360,000 US$ 32,800-45,800 Mary Redfern，《China Without Dragons.
Exhibition Presented by the Oriental Ceramic
Society》，Arts of Asia，2016年11至12月，
第159頁，圖版3

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