id:			119659
accession number:	1940.50
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1940.50
updated:		2024-03-26 01:57:41.748000

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.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Edward L. Whittemore Fund 1940.50

title:				Pillow
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creation date:			1000s–1100s
creation date earliest:		1000
creation date latest:		1200
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creditline:			Edward L. Whittemore Fund
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culture:	China, Northern Song dynasty (960-1127)
technique:	Buff stoneware with carved underglaze slip decoration, Cizhou ware
department:	Chinese Art
collection:	China - Song Dynasty
type:		Ceramic
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measurements: Overall: 11.8 x 19.8 cm (4 5/8 x 7 13/16 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		The Colors of Ink
	opening date:   1974-01-10T04:00:00
	<i>The Colors of Ink</i>. Asia House Galleries (January 10-March 3, 1974); The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 9-May 12, 1974).

	title:		Freedom of Clay and Brush: Tz'u Chou Type Wares
	opening date:   1980-09-17T04:00:00
	<i>Freedom of Clay and Brush: Tz'u Chou Type Wares</i>. 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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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* {'description': '<em>Chinese Ceramics. </em>The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (March 1940).', 'opening_date': '1940-03-01T05:00:00Z'}

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PROVENANCE

	(Yamanaka and Company, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
	date: ?–1940
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 1940–
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	<em> American Magazine of Art</em> (April 1940), p. 212.
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	Hollis, Howard. “Pottery of the Sung Dynasty.” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 28, no. 8 (October 1941): 125–131.
	page number: 	Mentioned and Reproduced: pp. 125–131
	url:		https://www.jstor.org/stable/25140944

	Rakuji Hasebe, ed. "Wares made by several kilns in North China of the Sung Dynasty," In<em>Toki Zenshu</em>, vol. 13, Heibonsha, Tokyo, 1958.
	page number: 	Reproduced: pl. 45
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	Lee, Sherman Emery, and James Robinson. <em>The Colors of Ink: Chinese Paintings and Related Ceramics from the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. New York: Asia Society; distributed by New York Graphic Society, 1974.
	page number: 	cat. no. 52, p. 131
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	Mino, Yutaka, and Katherine R. Tsiang. <em>Freedom of Clay and Brush Through Seven Centuries in Northern China: Tz'u-Chou Type Wares, 960-1600 A.D</em>. Indianapolis: Indianapolis Museum of At, 1981.
	page number: 	cat. no. 38
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