Description
A Chinese unglazed and painted pottery model of a bactrian camel, Tang dynasty 618-906 AD, 35cm.
Oxford Authentication Report, sample No. C104y40, 26th October 2004.
Similar examples are illustrated in Treasures of Chang'an: Capital of the Silk Road, no.70, pp. 190-1, unearthed from the tomb of Zheng Rentai in Liquan county in 1971, and now in the collection of Shaanxi Historical Museum; and in Tregear, Chinese Ceramics in the Ashmolean Museum, fig. 7, p.11.
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