A PALE CELADON JADE CAMEL

Compare with a few jade camels of approximately the same date: one from the McElney Collection, dated Tang, illustrated by James Watt, Chinese Jades from Han to Ch'ing, New York, 1980, p. 61, no. 40; another two, dated to the 10th century, illustrated ibid., nos. 41 and 42; an example from the collection of Mr. and Mrs. Richard C. Bull, dated Tang dynasty or later, sold at Sotheby's New York, 6 December 1983, lot 212; and a yellow jade camel, dated Song-Ming dynasty, sold at Christie's Hong Kong, The Gerald Godfrey Private Collection of Fine Chinese Jades, 30 October 1995, lot 867.