A rare Chinese song Cizhou green pillow, Northern Song Dynasty (960-1127), the faceted rectangular section stoneware pillow with a curved slanted top covered in a white slip, the top panel further covered in iron black decorated with raised white slip painting of scrolling flowers and foliage, with incised sgraffito work surrounding the flower painting of a barbed-foliate shaped reserve, the whole covered in a transparent green glaze., 13 cm high, 29.6 cm wide.