Gold (1115-1234), ochre color black tiger with pillow

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lot size is smaller, more familiar WoHuXing overall, is to be molded, lifelike. Craftsmen skillfully by tiger nostril is vent, borrow sought for pillow face, body ochre yellow painted on the black color, with tiger stripes, effect is clear, see as think of opportunely. Crouching flat waist round medallion, white glaze color painted folding flowers a group on the ground. Flat dry tyres, see make-up soil and glaze phenomenon of diaspora. Prime tyres on white make-up soil, the colored glaze, transparent glaze firing. Glaze moist bright, finely cracked, for shanxi changzhi kiln peak masterpiece. Changzhi kiln burning in northern song dynasty, sheng Yu Jinyuan.

most of this kind of tiger shape pillow for changzhi kiln products, magnetic state kiln in hebei, henan, grilled village kiln, etc., style. Has left to right and to the tiger, the ochre coloured glaze have deep have shallow, in addition to the pillow surface medallion, and bionic person as a whole.

it is worth mentioning that the Shanghai museum, shanxi museum such tiger pillow (see “China ceramic corpora ・ 9 ・ western liaoning Xia Jin”, pp. 184, 167. The bottom of the page 188, the figure 172), respectively the ink book “big set two years (1162) on June 26th the zhangs'”, “two years”, date to provide the basis for such artifacts, mostly for the early jin.