Asian Art Day One - 20th May 2009

Lot 207

A Chinese unglazed pottery model of a bactrian camel

Estimate £700 - £1,000 | Hammer £1200

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Description

A Chinese unglazed pottery model of a bactrian camel, Tang dynasty 618-906 AD, 32.5cm. Oxford Authentication Report, Sample No. C104n49, 22nd June 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. Sold with no reserve