Gongyi Kiln Stranded Sleeper

[Gongyi Kiln Carving Pillow]

Gongyi Kiln Carving Pillow, Tang Dynasty, 8 cm high, 12.5 cm long and 8.8 cm wide
This pillow is small and rectangular in shape. The pillow is low in front and high in the back. There is a vent in the front. The pillow surface and side of the pillow are decorated with an array of five-petal flower patterns twisted from white and brown soil, covered with yellow glaze
It can be concluded from the mutual verification with the samples collected at the kiln site that this strangulated pillow is a product of Gongyi kiln in Henan Province. There are generally two types of stranglers in Gongyi Kiln: one is full strangler, which is formed by twisting the deep and light colored mud together; The other is the faceted stranding, which means that two different colors of mud are twisted together to form different textures, and then cut into thin pieces, which are pasted onto the implements with mud. This method is to save raw materials for stranding, and to facilitate the making of various patterns.