Description: Song dynasty (960-1279)
Shaped as a reclining girl, painted in russet and black on a white slib ground, with delicately modelled facial features, her dress decorated with scattered flowers, the head support decorated with bamboo.
W. 36 cm
Provenance:
- Private collection, Japan
- Dries Blitz, Amsterdam (Tefaf, 2011) (with label)
- Collection Drs. Koos de Jong, Amsterdam
Compare:
- [exhib.cat.] Song Ceramics from the Kwan Collection, Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong 1994, no. 162, p. 361
- [exhib.cat.] Chinese Ceramic Pillows. The Mr. & Mrs. Yeung Wing Tak Gift, Museum of the Western Han Tomb of the Nanyue King, Guangzhou 1993, no. 126
Note:
The most remarkable feature of this pillow is the realistic representation of the girl's flowered silk jacket.