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868 A EXCEPTIONALLY RARE CARVED   北宋 金ǭ十Հ世紀ǭ
 DING BEAN-SHAPED PILLOW  定窯白地剔花魚戲蓮塘腰圓枕
 NORTHERN SONG-JIN DYNASTY, 12TH CENTURY
 The slightly concave top is decorated with a carp swimming    Ϝ源
 amidst lotus blooms, lily pads, and other aquatic plants framed    藍理捷
 紐約
 編號
 by a running scroll border and the tall sides are embellished
 with a wide band of scrollwork, all carved through the pale    It is extremely rare to find a Ding pillow with zoomorphic
 iron-brown slip to reveal the white ground and covered overall   decoration, as most examples exhibit floral designs. For a two-
 with a transparent glossy glaze. The base is left unglazed and    color Ding pillow carved with a lotus design in the Palace
 has four small vent apertures.  Museum, Beijing, dated by inscription to the eighth year of Dading
 (1168), see The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum
 11¡ in. (28.9 cm.) long, cloth box
 - 32 - Porcelain of the Song Dynasty (I), Hong Kong, 1996, pp.
 $60,000-80,000  98-99, no. 89. A further, two-color Ding pillow of related form
 and floral design is in the Palace Museum, Beijing, and illustrated
 PROVENANCE:
 in Dingci yaji: Gugong bowuyuan zhencang ji chutu Dingyao ciqi huicui
 J. J. Lally & Co., New York, no. 4854.
 (Selection of Ding Ware: The Palace Museum’s Collection and
 Archaeological Excavation), Beijing, 2012, no. 100.
 See, also, the carved Ding pillow now in the Dingzhou Museum,
 Hebei province, illustrated by Mu in Dingci yishu (The Art of
 Ding Porcelain), Shijiazhuang, 2002, p. 148, no. 198. Other
 carved two-color Ding pillows of this type include one in the
 Philadelphia Museum of Art illustrated by B. Gray in Sung Porcelain
 and Stoneware, London, 1984, p. 72, no. 52; another in Chinese
 Ceramic Pillows from Yeung Wing Tak Collection, Osaka, 1984, p. 34,
 no. 6; and one in the collection of Museum of Fine Arts, Houston,
 accession number 59.16.



































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