A STRAW-GLAZED BUFF POTTERY FIGURE OF A BACTRIAN CAMEL

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A STRAW-GLAZED BUFF POTTERY FIGURE OF A BACTRIAN CAMEL
SUI DYNASTY

Shown standing on a rectangular base with head thrown back in a bray, with a pair of bulging packs slung between the humps over pack-boards, the facial features crisply molded and with incised trappings on the body, all under a now-degraded glaze of straw tone, with traces of dark red pigment on an unglazed area of the back hump and rump, some restored--14½in. (36.8cm.) high, wood base

拍品專文

Compare the straw-glazed camels of this type illustrated by Wirgin in "Chinese Ceramics from the Axel and Nora Lundgren Bequest," B.M.F.E.A., No. 50, 1978, no. 2, pl. 10 and another illustrated in the Heibonsha Series, vol. 25, fig. 13