Ding Kiln Child Pillow (residual)

[Ding Kiln Child Pillow (remnant)]

Ding Kiln Child Pillow (remnant), Song Dynasty, 15.2 cm long, 9 cm high.
This pillow rectangular pedestal is decorated with a sleeping child lying on the side of the pillow arm. The child’s eyes are slightly closed, and his face is smiling. The waist side is the pillow surface. The pillow surface is incomplete, and only a small part is left. It can be seen that the underglaze is printed with baby play lotus pattern. The bottom of the pedestal is hollow, astringent and unglazed, and there is an ink book on it: “The pillow was painted with white glaze on August 27th of the first year of Yuanyou.” The pillow is painted with white glaze. The glaze color is warm and moist, the pattern is clear, and the lines are elegant. It has the distinctive characteristics of the white glaze ware of Ding Kiln in the Northern Song Dynasty. “Yuanyou” is the year of Song Zhezong, and the first year of Yuanyou is 1086 A.D
Ding Kiln is one of the five famous kilns in the Song Dynasty. It is a famous kiln in the north of China. It has a history of about 600 to 700 years after the Tang, Song, Jin and Yuan dynasties, and the Song Dynasty is the most prosperous. Ding Kiln porcelain is represented by white glaze. Its exquisite shape, creamy white and toothy white glaze color and smooth carving, printing and carving decoration are the top white porcelain in the Song Dynasty. The children’s pillows collected in the Forbidden City of Taipei and the Forbidden City of Beijing can be regarded as the representative works of Ding porcelain in the Northern Song Dynasty. There are very few porcelain pillows with clear chronological patterns in the Northern Song Dynasty. This child pillow is lifelike, vivid, beautifully made, with clear patterns, and has a clear chronological pattern. It is also the only known porcelain pillow with the style of the first year of Yuan You in the Northern Song Dynasty, which provides a valuable material basis for the staging and dating of porcelain pillows in the Song Dynasty


定窑孩儿枕（残）款识