A rare molded Qingbai 'boy and dragon' pillow, Northern Song dynasty

拍品描述

Width 7⅛ in., 18 cm Compare a closely related example with three boys playing on the top and the side molded with a dragon, from the Eumorfopoulos Collection, now in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, illustrated in Sekai Toji Zenshu [Ceramic Art of the World], vol. 12, Tokyo, 1977, figs 34 and 35; see another example with three boys playing on the top, illustrated in Chinese Ceramics From Yeung Wing Tak Collection, The Museum of Oriental Ceramics, Osaka, 1984, p. 63, no. 125. For auction examples, see one sold in our Hong Kong rooms, 24th November 1981, lot 19; another sold in these rooms, 7th December 1983, lot 232.

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