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Pillow

1000s–1100s

China, Northern Song dynasty

(960-1127)

Buff stoneware with carved underglaze slip decoration, Cizhou ware

Overall: 11.8 x 19.8 cm (4 5/8 x 7 13/16 in.)

Edward L. Whittemore Fund 1940.50

Location

not on view

Provenance
?–1940
(Yamanaka and Company, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
1940–
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Citations
American Magazine of Art (April 1940), p. 212.
Hollis, Howard. “Pottery of the Sung Dynasty.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 28, no. 8 (October 1941): 125–131. Mentioned and Reproduced: pp. 125–131 www.jstor.org
Rakuji Hasebe, ed. "Wares made by several kilns in North China of the Sung Dynasty," InToki Zenshu, vol. 13, Heibonsha, Tokyo, 1958. Reproduced: pl. 45
Lee, Sherman Emery, and James Robinson. The Colors of Ink: Chinese Paintings and Related Ceramics from the Cleveland Museum of Art. New York: Asia Society; distributed by New York Graphic Society, 1974. cat. no. 52, p. 131
Mino, Yutaka, and Katherine R. Tsiang. Freedom of Clay and Brush Through Seven Centuries in Northern China: Tz'u-Chou Type Wares, 960-1600 A.D. Indianapolis: Indianapolis Museum of At, 1981. cat. no. 38
Exhibition history

Chinese Ceramics. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (March 1940).

The Colors of Ink. Asia House Galleries (January 10-March 3, 1974); The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 9-May 12, 1974).

Freedom of Clay and Brush: Tz'u Chou Type Wares. Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN (organizer) (November 17, 1980-January 18, 1981); China House Gallery, New York City, NY (March 16-May 24, 1981); The Cleveland Museum of Art (August 5-September 6, 1981).

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