Qing qianlong pastel carved porcelain doll pillow

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the earliest porcelain pillow in sui, tang after mass production, popular, jing period, especially in the two song and jin the heyday. Porcelain pillow is the summer bedding, strong cool and refreshing, skin, off-dry. The biography of FengNing yue: “good eye what porcelain stone as the pillow, can be old and not faint.” The KaoPan things “records:” China stone, without large, with gravel cut into pillow, next to wood with pillow, the most bright eye yi ching, to old to read a book.” Sung people Zhang Lei xie huang division is HuiBi porcelain pillow “did:” gong as pillow hard and green, a friend a gift I antiphlogistic steamed. Born of the house cool, brain cold chills the drawing-board surprised.” It is not hard to see, porcelain pillow can not only bright eye to eyes, enjoy the cool, and is the best gift.
the song before, though there are many men and women in China ceramics apparatus for an idol, but rarely see daily necessities to the baby image modelling. Doll pillow should, therefore, is to the potter in the song dynasty one of the great creation in the plastic arts, is a typical style of the song dynasty porcelain pillow. Pillow doll is a kind of like a pillow, because of the pillow body assumes the child lying, so named. Song Shiding kiln and jingdezhen kiln, magnetic state kiln, jizhou kiln, such as the north and the south kilns were fire, and there are white glaze, shadow blue, three-color, yellow green glaze and black glaze etc. Several kinds of. From the point of view of modelling, like a child born pillow can be divided into two type: one type is children prone on the bedding, both hands hold the pillow, look up side, back waist round soft, for people to commend the “first”, the common name for baby pillow, was later generations. Another type of children more sideways lie on the bed board as pillow, hands holding a large can be the body or ganoderma lucidum cover on the lotus leaf, lotus leaf roll over into arc as pillow, commonly known as the lad lotus leaf pillow.
the product shape is obviously from the song dynasty doll pillow, lad, half lying for games and decorated with pastel spring clothing. This model as an example reference source of suzhou museum song magnetic magnetic state kiln white boy pillow (see: the suzhou museum of China, page 33). This product is intact, colour quietly elegant, simple and lovely, for collection.