Northern Song dynasty (960-1127)The shaped pillow incised to the top with a pair of peonies on a ground of fish-scales, the sides decorated with leaves, covered with a cream glaze over a white slib.W. 18.8 cm Provenance:- Fong's Gallery, Hong Kong (1999)- Collection Drs. Koos de Jong, AmsterdamCompare:- [exhib. cat.] Freedom of Clay and Brush through Seven Centuries in Northern China: Tzú-chou Type Wares, 960-1600 A.D. (Yutaka Mino), Indianapolis Museum of Art, 1980, ill. 20, pp. 64-65 - [exhib.cat.] Song Ceramics from the Kwan Collection, Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong 1994, no. 152, p. 343 - [cat.] Chinese Ceramic Pillows. The Mr. & Mrs. Yeung Wing Tak Gift, Museum of the Western Han Tomb of the Nanyue King, Guangzhou 1993, no. 41 & no. 43