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A Marbled pillow Tang Dynasty
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Description
of tapered rectangular section, the wide, slightly concaved top applied with a brown-and-white clay body veneer of concentric circles imitaiting wood grain or flowers, all covered beneath a thin amber glaze
Provenance
The collection was formed in China between the 1920s-50s.
Catalogue Note
See two marbled pillows of this shape decorated with related large marbled florettes illustrated in Three-colour Glazed Pottery Kilns of the Tang Dynasty at Huangye, Beijing, 2000, pl. 65; and another of similar size and shape, with a large marbled central design, in the Shanghai Museum collection, included in Zhongguo taoci quanji, vol. 5, Shanghai, 2000, pl. 217. Compare also a pillow sold in our Hong Kong rooms, 21st May 1985, lot 48.