Chinese Tiger pillows are generally used by chinese children as a pillow or a toy. Original materials are clothing, colorful threads, and beads.

Tiger pillow are widely used by Chinese children. Tiger is taken as the king of the forest. He can protect children from dangers. It usually acts as a pillow or a toy near the pillow to guard the child. They are also one of the greatest gifts to children. Luxury decorations show the adult's love and greatest concern to the child.

When they have a baby, the baby's aunts will send the baby handmade tiger head shoes, tiger head hat, tiger head pillows, tiger head bellyband, cloth made tiger and embroider shoes to protect the baby from the evil, and with the best wishes of hoping the baby to have longlife.

All made by hand,natural and environmental, absolutely Chinese traditional custom and folk handicraft styles.Popular for children and adult, also as good gifts to friends.

This amusing pillow is modeled in the form of a crouching tiger, with head upturned and fangs bared. The body is covered with amber-orange glaze, which, in turn, is painted with lively black stripes imparting a naturalistic look and rhythmic flare. The top of the headrest is painted with a central medallion encircling a butterfly hovering above an orchid and lotus leaf, all flanked with floral sprays.

The earliest dates inscribed on tiger-form pillows are from the Chin dynasty (1115-1234) and the theme itself may be derived from paintings of tigers, which were popular throughout the Sung period (960-1279). This type of two-color (tan and black) slip painted decoration is one of over twenty decorative techniques developed at the several Tz'u-chou kilns of North China. This marvelous example is exceptionally well preserved.

Editor: Feng Hui