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A KIDNEY-SHAPED CIZHOU ‘PEONY’ PILLOW
Northern Song Dynasty
Of ogival outline, the lobed top carved through a cream glaze in
reserve with a very boldly conceived single peony spray with three
large leaves exposing the clear-glazed dark beige body below within
a cartouche which mirrors the pillow form, the glaze covering the top
and sides and stopping unevenly above the shaped un-glazed base.
11in (28cm) across
$3,000 - 5,000

北宋 磁州窯牡丹紋枕

For another so-called Kidney-shaped pillow carved with a single
flower-head with lotus pads reserved on a dark beige ground, see
Gugong Bowuyuan Cang Wenwu Zhenpin Quanji (The Complete
Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum) Porcelain of the Song
Dynasty (I),Hong Kong, 1996, p. 195, no. 177.

For another example with two peony flower-heads reserved on a
similar ground, see Christie’s, Hong Kong, 11 October 2017, lot 344
and also published in Dream Quest: The Mark Lam Collection of
Chinese Ceramic Pillows, Shanghai, 2008, pl. 25.

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