Lot Essay
A gray pottery figure of a camel in a kneeling position with the same textured hair on the neck, head and legs, but with a more heavily laden saddle pack is illustrated in Sekai toji zenshu, vol. 8, p. 270, fig. 311; and another was excavated in Ci county, Hebei province in 1979, illustrated in A Pictorial Reference of Chinese Ancient History, Shanghai, 1990. p. 184. Compare, also, the kneeling camel illustrated by Schloss, Chinese Ceramic Sculpture, vol. II, pl. 40.
The result of Oxford thermoluminescence test no. 666j72 is consistent with the dating of this lot
The result of Oxford thermoluminescence test no. 666j72 is consistent with the dating of this lot