A LARGE SANCAI-GLAZED POTTERY FIGURE OF A BRAYING BACTRIAN CAMEL

TANG DYNASTY

細節

A LARGE SANCAI-GLAZED POTTERY FIGURE OF A BRAYING BACTRIAN CAMEL
Tang Dynasty
Standing foursquare on long legs upon a rectangular base, its long neck raised to support the well-modeled head thrown back as the mouth is opened in a bray exposing an openwork, amber-glazed tongue and large teeth, with amber-glazed patches of hair on the head, neck, tops of the forelegs and the two large humps flopped towards opposite sides above the elaborate blanket decorated with incised hatching, circular punchwork and roulette wheel motifs along the borders under splashes of green, amber and straw glazes, all reserved against the pale straw-green glaze of the body
33in. (83.8cm.) high

出版

The Tsui Museum of Art, Chinese Ceramics I: Neolithic to Liao, Hong Kong, 1993, pl. 97

展覽

Aarhus, Denmark, Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Empire of the Dragons, Chinese Art Treasures Through 4000 Years from Hong Kong, Sweden and Denmark, September - November, 1995, no. 24

拍品專文

Compare the camel with a similar saddle blanket and equally well-modeled facial features in the collection of Sir Alan and Lady Barlow included by Michael Sullivan in Chinese Ceramics, Bronzes and Jades, London, 1963, pl. 106

The result of Oxford Authentication Ltd. thermoluminescence test no. C97c87 is consistent with the dating of this lot