Pillow with marble pattern in brown and beige

The blended marbled-clay and the hole revealed on one side wall marks this piece as a special type. The shape, with a rising leaf-shaped head-rest was produced sometime between the tenth and thirteenth centuries as attested to by archaeological finds. Moreover, the shape, seen only in cizhou type pillows, gives a range of manufacturing locations within the cizhou production area, most likely in Henan-Hebei in accordance with the general attribution for marbled clay vessels of the Song. This piece might have been made at the dangyangyu kiln in Xiuwu county, Henan (Shanghai Mus. 1991 vol. 2: fig. 169).