A rare chocolate-brown-glazed pillow Jin Dynasty Crisply potted and assembled as a model of a shrine, an arched door on the two main sides leading to a small central room, the exterior walls symmetrically pierced with lobed, square and circular open windows, all under a rich glossy glaze over the grey biscuit body, fitted box. 20.5 (8in) wide. (2). Footnotes: Please note this Lot is to be sold at No Reserve. 本拍品不設底價 金 褐釉鏤空瓷枕 Published, Illustrated and Exhibited: Roger Keverne Ltd., Summer Exhibition, London, 2007, no.29. 展覽著錄：Roger Keverne Ltd.，《夏季展覽》，倫敦，2007年，編號29 The result of Oxford Authentication Ltd. thermoluminescence test no.P206g23 dated 10 January 2007, is consistent with the dating of this lot. Oxford Authentication Ltd公司熱釋光檢測結果（2007年1月10日，編號P206g23）顯示年代與本拍品年代一致。 Pillows such as the present lot are rare and are more usually found in white porcelain or qingbai ware. See for example, a white porcelain pillow, Five dynasties/Northern Song dynasty, in the Shanghai Museum, and an elaborate qingbai example, Yuan dynasty, modelled after the Guanghan Palace in the Moon, in the Datong Municipal Museum, illustrated by Wang Qingzhen, A Dictionary of Chinese Ceramics, Singapore, 2002, p.70. Wang notes that this 'type of pillow, first appearing in the Five Dynasties, evolved from the box-shaped pillow, with a building as a stand for the head rest'. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com