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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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