Cizhou kiln white ground black flower bamboo pillow

[Cizhou Kiln white ground black flower bamboo pillow]

Cizhou Kiln white ground black flower bamboo pillow with eight squares, Song Dynasty, height 10.5 cm, length 28.3 cm, width 19.8 cm
The pillow is octagonal, the wall has eight sides, and the pillow surface and bottom are out of the side. The pillow surface and pillow wall are decorated with white ground and black flowers. The pillow surface is a cluster of bamboos, and the pillow wall is a circle of rolled grass patterns. The outsole is stamped with “Made in Zhangjia”
In the Song, Jin and Yuan dynasties, porcelain pillows were one of the main shapes of Cizhou kiln. This pillow is freehand brushwork with natural and smooth brushwork, which vividly shows the upright and flexible bamboo, and has the effect of traditional Chinese ink painting. In the 1970s, when the Palace Museum was investigating the kiln site, a large number of porcelain pillow specimens with the “made by Zhang” style were found in the Guantai Kiln z site of Cizhou Kiln, indicating that there was a kiln dedicated to firing porcelain pillows at that time.