£6,000
A Rare White-glazed 'Kalavinka' Pillow, Liao dynasty the concave bean-shaped top deftly incised with stylised floral motifs within a diamond-shaped panel, supported on the backs of two wondrous kalavinka, their finely modelled human upper bodies and aristocratic faces emerging from each end, their winged lower body and fish-like tails meeting under the centre of the pillow, all covered in a thin ivory-white glaze pooling to a slight yellowish-green above the unglazed base Exhibited: Museo Nacional de Arte Oriental, Buenos Aires, Inauguracion, 1966, nos. 44 and 45.
Provenance: Adela Ocampo de Heimendal (1845-1931), Paris and Buenos Aires. Madeleine Ocampo de Casares-Lumb, Buenos Aires;
Alberto Casares Ocampo (1928-1998), Buenos Aires;
Thence in the family by descent
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