Period:Jin dynasty Production date:1115-1234
Materials:ceramic (stoneware)
Technique:glazed, moulded, slipped,
Dimensions:Height: 3.20 inches Length: 28.50 centimetres Length: 10.80 inches
Description:
This headrest, made of Cizhou glazed ceramic stoneware, is moulded in the form of a reclining girl, reposing on her right side with her legs curled up and her head propped by a bolster. Smooth white slip has transformed the surface of the impure stoneware clay and potters have painted it with iron black and tan details beneath a transparent glaze. The girl’s shoulders, curved waist and raised hips support an upper slab, forming the lop of the pillow, which bears a poetic inscription.
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Comments:Blurton, 1997:Kilns producing Ci-zhou type wares were located throughout northern China, in Shanxi, Shaanxi, Henan, Hebei, Shangdong and Anhui, often in the vicinity of coal mines for easy access to fuel for firing. Excavations in Zhangzhi county, in southeast Shanxi province, have unearthed sherds of similar pillows. Other reclining-child pillows are known in public collections (one with an inscription in the Shanghai Museum, and another in the Idemitsu Museum in Tokyo). Ceramic pillows were first made in the seventh century, but by the Northern Song (960-1126) and Jin (1115-1234) dynasties their production for use in the home was widespread.
Materials:ceramic (stoneware)
Technique:glazed, moulded, slipped,
Dimensions:Height: 3.20 inches Length: 28.50 centimetres Length: 10.80 inches
Description:
This headrest, made of Cizhou glazed ceramic stoneware, is moulded in the form of a reclining girl, reposing on her right side with her legs curled up and her head propped by a bolster. Smooth white slip has transformed the surface of the impure stoneware clay and potters have painted it with iron black and tan details beneath a transparent glaze. The girl’s shoulders, curved waist and raised hips support an upper slab, forming the lop of the pillow, which bears a poetic inscription.
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Comments:Blurton, 1997:Kilns producing Ci-zhou type wares were located throughout northern China, in Shanxi, Shaanxi, Henan, Hebei, Shangdong and Anhui, often in the vicinity of coal mines for easy access to fuel for firing. Excavations in Zhangzhi county, in southeast Shanxi province, have unearthed sherds of similar pillows. Other reclining-child pillows are known in public collections (one with an inscription in the Shanghai Museum, and another in the Idemitsu Museum in Tokyo). Ceramic pillows were first made in the seventh century, but by the Northern Song (960-1126) and Jin (1115-1234) dynasties their production for use in the home was widespread.
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