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2327 THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN
2327
2328 A CIZHOU STAMP-DECORATED CREAM-
GROUND QUADRILOBED PILLOW
178 SONG-JIN DYNASTY, 11TH-EARLY 12TH CENTURY

The pillow is covered in a white slip and
has stamped decoration in brown iron
pigment under a clear glaze, the top with a
peony design within a band of small forets
bordered by double lines, and the tall sides
with similar forets below a band of small
circles.
8æ in. (22.3 cm.) wide

$6,000-8,000

PROVENANCE:

The Walter Hochstadter (1914-2007)
Collection, and thence by descent to the
present owner.

A very similar pillow from the Arthur M. Sackler
Collection is illustrated by Y. Mino and K. R.
Tsiang in Freedom of Clay and Brush through
Seven Centuries in Northern China: Tz’u-chou
Type Wares, 960-1600 A.D., Indianapolis
Museum of Art, 1980, pp. 80-1, pl. 28, where
the authors note that the Sackler pillow is
unusual in having foral decoration on top rather
than the more usual stamped deer decoration,
several examples of which are illustrated.

宋/金 磁州開光牡丹印紋海棠式枕

THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN
2328
A CIZHOU WHITE EWER
LIAO-SONG DYNASTY, 11TH-12TH CENTURY

The ewer is sturdily potted with an oviform
body rising to the tall cylindrical neck with
fared mouth rim, and is covered with a
white slip under a clear glaze that ends
irregularly on the slightly fared foot to
expose the fne buff ware.
12 in. (30.5 cm.) high

$4,000-6,000

PROVENANCE:

The Walter Hochstadter (1914-2007)
Collection, and thence by descent to the
present owner.

A related Cizhou ewer of similar size but with a
fared mouth rim, is illustrated by Gakuji Hasebe
in Sekai toji zenshu, vol. 12, Song, Tokyo, 1977,
no. 115.

遼/宋 磁州白地透明釉執壺