A RARE BLUE AND SANCAI-GLAZED POTTERY FIGURE OF A BACTRIAN CAMEL

TANG DYNASTY

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A RARE BLUE AND SANCAI-GLAZED POTTERY FIGURE OF A BACTRIAN CAMEL
Tang Dynasty
Standing with long neck slightly swiveled and head raised, covered in a deep amber glaze with the areas of heavier hair on the head, upper front legs, tail and humps left unglazed and painted in a dark brown wash, laden with skeins of silk, a water flask and a bulging pack glazed in blue, amber, green and straw supported by amber-glazed pack boards with ivory-colored bamboo pole supports beneath, all atop a fringed blanket fitted over the humps and splash-glazed in amber, green and straw
20in. (50.8cm.) high

拍品专文

It is unusual to find a sancai-glazed camel with the addition of the rare blue glaze, but a somewhat larger example (62cm.) standing in the same position and similarly laden, its heavy areas of hair textured rather than smooth, was unearthed in 1983, in Xi'an, Shaanxi province, and later included in the exhibition, Silk Road, The Empress Place Museum, Singapore, 1991, Catalogue, p. 27.

The result of Oxford Authentication Ltd. thermoluminescence test no. C298f46 is consistent with the dating of this lot.