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Pillow end

Pillow end

  • Place of origin:

    Korea (made)

  • Date:

    1800-1870 (made)

  • Artist/Maker:

    unknown (production)

  • Materials and Techniques:

    Porcelain, moulded, painted and glazed

  • Museum number:

    C.444-1920

  • Gallery location:

    Ceramics Study Galleries, Asia & Europe, room 137, case L, shelf 2

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In Korea, pillows were usually made of cloth with round pads at the ends. The decorative end-piece was made of embroidered silk or wool, of wood or lacquer, or sometimes as in this example, of ceramic. The holes encircling the design of opposed blue and white cranes in flight are intended for sewing the pillow to its end.

Physical description

Pillow end made for a tube-shaped stuffed pillow. Around the circumference are rows of holes for sewing thread. Decorated with a contrasting pair of cranes, one blue and one white.

Place of Origin

Korea (made)

Date

1800-1870 (made)

Artist/maker

unknown (production)

Materials and Techniques

Porcelain, moulded, painted and glazed

Dimensions

Diameter: 9.5 cm

Descriptive line

Pillow end, porcelain with underglaze blue decoration of two flying cranes, Korean, Choson dynasty, 1800-1870.

Bibliographic References (Citation, Note/Abstract, NAL no)

McKillop, Beth. "The Samsung Gallery of Korean Art at the V&A" in Orientations. Hong Kong, Vol. 23, No. 12, December 1992, p. 37, Fig. 10.
Wilkinson, Liz. Birds, Bats & Butterflies in Korean Art. London: Sun Tree Publishing, Singapore, 1996, pp. 24-25.

Exhibition History

KOREAN DAYS: KOREAN ART 5TH TO 19TH CENTURY FROM EUROPEAN MUSEUMS AND COLLECTIONS (MUSEUM ALTES RATHAUS, INGELHEIM AM RHEIN 06/05/1984-11/06/1984)

Materials

Porcelain

Techniques

Moulded; Blue and white

Subjects depicted

Cranes (birds)

Categories

Porcelain; Ceramics

Collection code

EAS

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