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PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE JAPANESE COLLECTION
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A CIZHOU ‘ZHANG FAMILY’ PAINTED PILLOW
YUAN DYNASTY, 14TH CENTURY
The rectangular pillow is painted in brown on a white slip under a clear glaze with a landscape
panel on the slightly concave top, bamboo on the front, a peony spray on the back and
peony blossoms on the ends, all within ogival panels surrounded by fower scroll. The base is
stamped with a three-character maker’s mark, Zhang jia zao, in a vertical column capped by a
lotus leaf.
12¬ in. (32 cm.) long
$6,000-8,000
PROVENANCE:
Inouye Oriental Art, Japan.
EXHIBITED:
Osaka, Japan, Osaka City Art Museum, Charm of Black & White Ware: Transition of Cizhou
Type Wares, 1 October - 8 December 2002, no. 96.
100 Ceramic Pillows: Formerly the Hayashibara Museum collection, T. Edo Inouye & Son Oriental
Art, Tokyo, March 2012, no. 83.
元 磁州窯「張家造」白地褐彩開光山水圖枕
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