Important and rare child-shaped pillow lying on... Lot n° 921

Important and rare child-shaped pillow lying on Dingyao porcelain, China North Song Dynasty (960-1127). With Certificate of Analysis by Thermoluminescence of the U.A.M. Decoration carved and sculpted under a transparent ivory white glaze. A similar pillow is found in the Beijing Museum Palace and is reproduced in The Palace Museum. Beijing-Treasures of the Forbidden City by Wang-Go Weng / Yang Boda, pag. 93 and also in Chinese Ceramics, From the Paleolithic Period Trough the Qing Dynasty by Li Zhiyang, Virginia I. Bower and He Li, Pags. 272 and back cover. Another smaller similar pillow is located in the National Museum Palace of Taipei, Taiwan. See Shatze der Himmelssöhne exhibition catalog held at the Altes Museum in Berlin, Germany from July 18 to October 12. 2003, p. 213 Length: 26.5 cms.