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            A FINELY CARVED YELLOW AND RUSSET JADE FIGURE OF                   南宋 明　十̾至十ω世㈵　
            A RECUMBENT BACTRIAN CAMEL                                         黃玉駱駝
            SOUTHERN SONG-MING DYNASTY, 13TH-15TH CENTURY
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            The camel is shown with the head sharply turned and resting against the left haunch.
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            The legs are tucked under the body and the hooves clearly defined. The softly polished
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            3q in. (8.9 cm.) long, cloth box
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            PROVENANCE:                                                        編號
            Bluett & Sons, London, early 1980s.
            Anthony du Boulay (1929-2022) Collection, Dorset, England.
            Anthony Carter, London, 5 July 1993.
            The LJZ Collection, United States.
            LITERATURE:
            A. Carter, The LJZ Collection of Chinese Jades, London, 2022, pp. 22-23, no. 6.
            Camels are part of the Chinese repertoire of animals that are typically depicted in a
            seated or resting position. Associated with the opening of the Silk Road during the Han
            dynasty, they became popular during the Tang dynasty when pottery representations of
            camels either standing or seated were included amongst the figures that were placed in
            tombs. They subsequently enjoyed popularity again under the Mongols of the Yuan dynasty.
            A yellow jade camel of comparable size (10.2 cm.) and dated to the Song dynasty is
            illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum - 41 - Jadeware (II),
            Hong Kong, 1995, p. 68, pl. 58. As with the present figure, the head is turned to the side
            and the body is softly contoured. A light green and brown jade camel of comparable size
            (9.5 cm.) but shown with head raised and facing forward, in the Museum of Far Eastern
            Antiquities, Stockholm, is illustrated by Jessica Rawson in “Chinese Jade throughout the
            ages”, T.O.C.S., vol. 40, 1973-75, p. 83, no. 249, where it is dated Song dynasty. See, also,
            the white jade camel shown in a similar recumbent position with head turned illustrated
            by Jessica Rawson in Chinese Jade: From the Neolithic to the Qing, London, 1995, p. 369,
            no. 26:12, where it is dated Song dynasty or later.




















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