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Collection Online as of October 4, 2023

Pillow

1100s-1200s

China, Song dynasty (960-1279) - Yuan dynasty

(1271-1368)

Gray stoneware with underglaze painted decoration, Cizhou ware

Overall: 13.4 x 22.9 cm (5 1/4 x 9 in.)

Gift of Mrs. Langdon Warner 1915.506

Location

not on view

Provenance
?-1915
Mrs. Langdon (Lorraine d’Oremieulx Roosevelt) Warner [1887-1965], Cambridge, MA, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art
1915-
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Citations
Mino, Yutaka, and Katherine R. Tsiang. Freedom of Clay and Brush Through Seven Centuries in Northern China: Tz'u-Chou Type Wares, 960-1600 A.D. Indianapolis: Indianapolis Museum of At, 1981. Reproduced: cat. pl. 52
Lee, Sherman E. Chinese, Japanese, and Korean Ceramics: Handlist. [Durham? N.C.]: [Duke University Museum of Art?], 1986.
Gerritsen, Anne. The City of Blue and White: Chinese Porcelain and the Early Modern World. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Mentioned and reproduced: P. 70-71, fig. 4.3
Exhibition history

Chinese, Japanese, and Korean Ceramics. The Duke University Museum of Art, Durham, NC (March 15-May 5, 1986).

Freedom of Clay and Brush through Seven Centuries in Northern China: Tz'u-chou Type Wares, 960-1600 AD. Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN (November 17, 1980-January 18, 1981); China House Gallery, New York, NY (March 16-May 24, 1981); Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (August 5-September 6, 1981).

Inaugural Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (co-organizer) (June 6-September 20, 1916).

35th Anniversary Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 20-September 30, 1951).

Freedom of Clay and Brush: Tz'u Chou Type Wares. Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN (organizer) (November 17, 1980-January 18, 1981); China House Gallery, New York City, NY (March 16-May 24, 1981); The Cleveland Museum of Art (August 5-September 6, 1981).

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