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A RARE CIZHOU PAINTED TIGER-FORM PILLOW A number of these pillows are held in distinguished private and
JIN DYNASTY (1115-1234) museum collections, including one from the Avery Brundage
collection, held in the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco,
The kidney-form pillow is modelled as a recumbent tiger with
an alert expression on its face, its head lowered and resting on the illustrated by M. Tregear, Song Ceramics, New York, 1982,
p. 82, no. 79. Compare also those published in Chinese Ceramic
front paws. Its hind legs are tucked under it with its tail resting
Pillows from Yeung Wing Tak Collection, The Museum of
along the side of its body. The tiger’s body is freely painted with
Oriental Ceramics, Osaka, 1984, nos. 80-85.
dark brown details on a light coffee brown and cream ground. The
upper panel is decorated with two insects in flight before a single
long-tailed bird perched on a finely marbled rocky promontory. 㕺 ⌙๸⒌ⴳྌᗆ
15 ¿ in. (38.5 cm.) wide, box
⯂⽏ᆨ卿២㬷սⱤ㺠Ǯ⇧℡ἃ⡠㱈ǯ࡚⁒ᆨ២ᝳࡂᙻ᭯ຽ⯝
HK$150,000-200,000 US$20,000-26,000 㚈㚨Ӭ㊯卿᫉㊯ᯧԮ⡕㢙ᙻǶᤨ᭦ᇪᘘ⻦ ԋஇ㪃២Ƿ卿ഌ㩌
Ⴊ⛁ែᰑ㪃┵⧻ワ㱦卿 ჺ卿㮰 ǯ
The present lot belongs to a family of Cizhou pillows in the form
of recumbent tigers, variously decorated with birds, flowers, and ཝἃ᯷ዪ᫉២Ԡ⽏ᬝ⡿❥⯝⧎㇦Ԡഌ↚⒢㱈⡠卿जᬘ㖅Ӭ
animals. Animal-form pillows were believed to promote the birth ׾卿ཨ༿㖅ཎ卻 ݩߎ卼卿㖊ᙻǶᘢ༈ࢷ⁒㱦⻦Ⅷ৅ݥ ݦ
of sons and protect against evil, which is discussed by T. Mikami
in Chinese Ceramic Pillows from Yeung Wing Tak Collection, The ໬≢଍卻ӳ卼Ƿ✄ ݺ卿㲞ᳰ卿 ჺ卿㮰 卿⤔⽚ 厎औ
Museum of Oriental Ceramics, Osaka, 1984, p. 18. ᝳӬ⽏ᆨ២卿ཨ༿㖅ഌ卻 ݩߎ卼ӻᝳ⏟ऱ⡠㱈卿ἃඳᙱ
ᄮ㗞ഌໝ㿐㘖㙪ߎᡉ$IB[FO⻱ワࢷ⁒㱦㱦⻦卿⤔⽚ 卿
Note the fine detail of the tiger’s fur and unusual marbled
decoration. Compare a smaller example (36 cm.) in the Ԇᙻ⡥⡙᎜ऒలHonored Guestsཿ㈇ԋཿ߅卿⡥⡙卿 ჺ ᝲ
Complete Treasures of the Palace Museum: Porcelain of the ᚚ⯍ ᝲ ᚚ卿ᘘ㢙ᙻݯཿ㈇எ㢙卿,BJLPEP +PVSOBM 997*卿
Song Dynasty (I), vol. 32, Hong Kong, 1996, p. 232, no. 209, 㮰 ক㮰 卿⤔⽚ ǯऱᙔԮ㉃㖊Ӭྒྷ㇛ᆌझឭ
and a slightly larger example (39.3 cm.) decorated with ߅கԠ׾卿ݯ២ᝧǸ㏌݉Ӳჺǹ ǯ
marbled rocks and birds held in the Chazen Museum of Art,
University of Wisconsin-Madison, accession no. 2010.23 㘆ַ׾㇦㋭ᙻݥ↗ݩ☆Ⅷ⻦卿ൈ"WFSZ #SVOEBHF㐩Խ⯠㞖ྒྷՌ
and exhibited and published in Kaikodo, “Honored Guests”, ᰲ⻱ワࢷ⁒㱦Ӭ׾卿㖊ᙻ. 5SFHFBSᏒⶬԠǶ4POH $FSBNJDTǷ卿
Kaikodo Journal XXVI, New York, 18 March – 8 April 2010,
pp. 120-121 and 196-197, fig. 54. The same article illustrates a ⡥⡙卿 ჺ卿㮰 卿⤔⽚ 厎ࣿᤨ᭦ᇪⅧ⻦ᙇ׾卿㇦Ƕᤨ᭦
further example unearthed in Zhangtai city, Shanxi, which is ᇪᘘ⻦ ԋஇ㪃២Ƿ卿ഌ㩌卿 ჺ卿⤔⽚ ǯ
inscribed by the maker and dated to the 3rd year of Zhenyuan
reign, corresponding to 1155.

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