Lot Essay
Sold in these rooms December 10, 1987, lot 313
It is rare to find Tang camels in recumbent poses, particularly in stone. Compare the recumbent pottery camel excavated from the tomb of Wu Shouzhong at Gaolou village, Xian, dated to 748 A.D., illustrated in Sekai toji zenshu, vol. 9. fig. 130(2); and one with a pack and roughened fur, unearthed from an early Tang tomb in Yangchow, Jiangsu province, illustrated in Wenwu, 1979, no. 4, pl. 2, fig. 2
See also the two camels, depicted in the process of rising from a recumbent position, and dated to the early 8th century, in the Eli Lilly Collection in the Indianapolis Museum of Art, included by Mino and Robinson in the Catalogue, nos. 59 and 60, 1983
It is rare to find Tang camels in recumbent poses, particularly in stone. Compare the recumbent pottery camel excavated from the tomb of Wu Shouzhong at Gaolou village, Xian, dated to 748 A.D., illustrated in Sekai toji zenshu, vol. 9. fig. 130(2); and one with a pack and roughened fur, unearthed from an early Tang tomb in Yangchow, Jiangsu province, illustrated in Wenwu, 1979, no. 4, pl. 2, fig. 2
See also the two camels, depicted in the process of rising from a recumbent position, and dated to the early 8th century, in the Eli Lilly Collection in the Indianapolis Museum of Art, included by Mino and Robinson in the Catalogue, nos. 59 and 60, 1983
