TWO CIZHOU PILLOWS Brown-slip-decorated pillow Jin dynasty; Bean-shaped pillow Northern Song dynasty, 11th century (2)PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF MARK S. PRATT, WASHINGTON, DCTWO CIZHOU PILLOWSBrown-slip-decorated pillow: Jin dynasty; Bean-shaped pillow: Northern Song dynasty, 11th century The first, of octagonal section, the top painted freely in brown slip with floral sprays and foliage, covered in an ivory-colored slip extending down the sides; the second, a bean-shaped pillow covered in white slip incised with a feather-patterned band on the canted side walls and two chrysanthemums in bloom against a stamped 'fish roe' ground across the sloped top, the exposed clay body burnt a pale brown beneath a colorless glaze that stops unevenly above the flat base. 17in (43.2cm) long; 7 3/4in (19.7cm) long (2).金/南宋 磁州窰花卉紋枕一組兩件Provenance:Sotheby's, New York, 4 June 1986, lot 53For similarly shaped and decorated pillows in the collections of the Royal Ontario Museum and the Art Institute of Chicago, see Mino Yutaka, Freedom of Clay and Brush through Seven Centuries in Northern China: Tz'u-chou Type Wares, 960-1600 A.D., 1980, pp 64-65, pl. 20 and fig. 41.