ID 718558
Lot 1087 | AN INCISED SLIP-DECORATED RUYI-SHAPED PILLOW
Estimate value
$ 15 000 – 25 000
NORTHERN SONG DYNASTY, 11TH-EARLY 12TH CENTURY
The top is incised thorugh the white slip to a dark grey slip ground with a leafy peony stem reserved on a ring-punch ground within a double-line border. The pillow is covered with a faintly crackled colorless glaze that stops at the base to reveal the buff-colored stoneware body.
11 1⁄2 in. (29.2 cm.) long
Provenance
Kaikodo, New York.
Literature
Kaikodo Journal, New York, Spring 2009, no. 14.
Exhibited
New York, Kaikodo, 2009.
| Place of origin: | China, Eastern Asia, Asia |
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| Place of origin: | China, Eastern Asia, Asia |
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| Auction house category: | All other types of objects |
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