About This Artwork
Rectangular Pillow with Scene from Popular LiteratureJin dynasty (1115-1234), 13th century
Cizhou-type ware; stoneware with underglaze iron decoration
16.5 x 32.5 cm (6 1/4 x 12 3/4 in.)
The stamped, three character mark reads zhang jia zao [made by the Zhang family]
Gift of Russell Tyson, 1946.945
Asian Art
Not on Display
Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories
Exhibition History
Cincinnati Art Museum, Decoded Messages: The Symbolic Languages of Chinese Animal Painting, October 9, 2009- January 3, 2010, cat. by Hou-mei Sung.
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Freedom of Clay and Brush Through Seven Centuries in Northern China: Tz’u-chou Type Wares, 960-1600 A.D., Nov. 17, 1980-Jan. 18, 1981, cat. by Yutaka Mino with the assistance of Katherine R. Tsiang; traveled to China House Gallery, New York, Mar. 16-May 24, 1981, Cleveland Museum of Art, August 5-September 6, 1981, pl. 140, cat. 58, p. 141 (ill.).
Museum of Oriental Ceramics, Osaka Shikago Bijutsukan, Chugoku bijutsu meihen ten: Masterpieces of Chinese Arts from the Art Institute of Chicago, Feb. 11-March 21, 1989; traveled to MOA Museum of Art, Tokyo, April 1-May 7, 1989, Idemitsu Museum of Arts, Tokyo, May 16-June 19, 1989, cat. 78, p. 144, p. 90 (ill.).
Publication History
Hou-mei Sung, Decoded Messages: The Symbolic Languages of Chinese Animal Painting, exh. cat. (Cincinnati Art Museum/Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 2009), cat. 54, pp.137-170, p. 152 (ill.).
Shikago Bijutsukan, Chugoku bijutsu meihen ten: Masterpieces of Chinese Arts from Art Institute of Chicago (Osaka: Osaka Shiritsu Toyo Toji Bijutsukan, Atami: MOA Bijutsukan, Tokyo: Idemitsu Bijutsukan, 1989), cat. 78, p. 144, p. 90 (ill.).
Yutaka Mino with the assistance of Katherine R. Tsiang; Freedom of Clay and Brush Through Seven Centuries in Northern China: Tz’u-chou Type Wares, 960-1600 A.D. (Indianapolis Museum of Art / Indiana University Press, 1980), cat. 58, p. 141 (ill.).