Dingyao white glazed child pillow

[Ding Kiln White Glazed Children’s Pillow]

Ding Kiln White Glazed Children’s Pillow, Song Dynasty, 18.3 cm high, 30 cm long and 18.3 cm wide
The pillow is like a child lying on the couch, with the child’s back as the pillow surface. The child put his arms around his head, held a hydrangea ball in his right hand, and crossed his feet. Wearing a robe with a camisole, and the lower part of the gown is printed with patterns. The couch is oblong, with light on all sides. The front side is printed with the dragon pattern, the back side is printed with light element, the two sides are printed with the Ruyi cloud head pattern, and the two sides are also decorated with the Ruyi cloud head pattern. White glaze is applied to the whole body, and there are two air holes at the bottom
Ding Kiln craftsman has unique ingenuity in shaping the porcelain pillow into an innocent, lively and lovely boy image. The children have clear eyebrows and beautiful eyes, round and energetic eyes, and look relaxed and proud. The whole work has soft and smooth lines, and the details are very vivid and vivid, making it a famous product in ancient Chinese porcelain
The ancients like to use jade pillows and porcelain pillows because they can refresh the body and mind, and even have the function of “brightening the eyes and benefiting the eyes, and reading fine books for the old”. Porcelain pillows were popular in the Song Dynasty, and porcelain kilns in the north and south were widely fired, with a wide variety of shapes. The varieties include white glaze (white glaze flower carving, white glaze pearl ground flower carving, white glaze flower carving, white glaze black flower), black glaze, blue glaze, cyan white glaze, yellow glaze, green glaze, tricolor, etc. The shapes are rectangular, octagonal, silver ingot, round waist, Ruyi, tiger, lion, child, etc.