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A CARVED AND INLAID ‘MAKARA’ PILLOW 北宋 珍珠地劃花摩羯紋枕
NORTHERN SONG DYNASTY (960-1127) 展覽
國立歷史博物館，《中國八代陶瓷精品展》，台北，1987年，圖錄34頁
The pillow is carved through a layer of white slip and inlaid with brown slip 《中国名陶展：中国陶磁2000年の精華》，東京，1992年，圖版31號
to depict a five-clawed Makara, its eyes picked out in black, amidst cloud
wisps and two pearls against a fish-roe ground on the top, the sides with a
broad peony band, all under a clear glaze; the base is unglazed revealing the
light brown body. There is a ventilation hole on one side.
10 √ in. (27.7 cm.) wide, box
HK$150,000-250,000 US$19,000-34,000
EXHIBITED
National Museum of History, The Exhibition of Chinese Ceramics of Eight
Dynasties, Taipei, 1987, Catalogue, p. 34
Chugoku meito ten: Chugoku toji 2000-nen no seika (Exhibition of Chinese
Pottery: Two Thousand Years of Chinese Ceramics), Tokyo, 1992, no. 31
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