Pillow, 10th-12th century, 5 1/2 x 10 1/2 x 9 5/8 in. (14 x x cm), Cizhou ware Stoneware with white 'cut-glaze' peony decoration on a brown slip under a transparent glaze, China, 10th-12th century, This bean shaped ceramic pillow is decorated on top with an oval medallion of twin peony blossoms rising from a single stalk. The sides are ornamented with a continuous frieze of stylized lotus scroll all freely carved through the cream-white exterior slip. It stands in contrast with the olive-brown interior slip which covers the buff-colored stoneware body

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