44. * CIZHOU STONEWARE PILLOW Jin/Yuan dynasty, 13th/14th century A CIZHOU 'ZHANG FAMILY' PILLOW Jin/Yuan Dynasty, 13th/14th century Of rectangular form with a concave top finely painted in brown on a creamy white slip under a clear glaze with a shaped medallion enclosing eight immortals in a garden setting, the sides similarly painted with shaped medallions enclosing a pictorial scene on the front and floral motifs on the sides and back, the base stamped with a five-character mark, 'Guxiang Zhangjia zao' (Made by the Zhang Family from Guxiang) between a lotus blossom and a lotus leaf. 40.5cm x 17cm x 15.4cm (16in x 6 3/4in x 6in) 金/元 十三/十四世紀 磁州窰白地黑花八仙祝壽圖枕 「古相張家造」款 Provenance: Acquired from Ben Janssen Oriental Art, London, 3 December 1998 A European private collection 來源： Ben Janssen Oriental Art藝廊，倫敦，1998年12月3日 歐洲私人珍藏 The pillow is stamped with the name of the Zhang Family, a workshop specialising in the production of pillows or headrests in the late 12th and 13th century. As indicated in the inscription, the workshop was located in Guxiang or Xiangxian to the west of Anyang in Henan. Several examples of similarly shaped, sized and decorated painted pillows or headrests are known, compare, for instance, one in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, accession number 2009.428, and a second example in the collection of the British Museum, London, illustrated in Oriental Ceramics. The World's Great Collections, vol. 5, Tokyo, 1981, no.118. Another pillow of this type, from the Falk Collection, illustrated by Yutaka Mino, Freedom of Clay and Brush through Seven Centuries in Northern China: Tz'u-chou Type Wares, 960-1600 A.D., Indianapolis, 1981, p.143, pl.59.