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PROPERTY FROM THE HAROLD AND RUTH NEWMAN
COLLECTION
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AN EXTREMELY RARE PAIR OF GREEN-GLAZED POTTERY Provenance
FIGURES OF SEATED CAMELS Sotheby’s New York, 19 March 1997, lot 192
Sui/Early Tang Dynasty The Harold and Ruth Newman Collection, Connecticut, 1997-2022
The kneeling camels at rest with legs folded beneath their bodies,
their heads raised and gazing forward, one head slightly tilted to the 出處：
side, each with full saddle bags tightly tied with slender twisted ropes 紐約蘇富比，1997 年 3 月 19 日，拍品第 192 號
with large knots, various provisions attached including rolled blankets 康州 Harold and Ruth Newman 藏，1997-2022
and large bolts of twisted cloth, the elaborate weighted saddle bags
forcing the forward humps to lean forward and the back humps to Compare a similarly modeled standing laden camel in straw glaze in
lean back, all under a single glaze of leaf-green color that stops short the collection of Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, illustrated by Li,
above the belly to reveal the buff pottery body beneath. Chinese Ceramics: A New Standard Guide, New York, 1996, p. 88,
16 1/2in (41.9cm) and 17in (43.2cm) long; 11 1/2in (29.3cm) high no. 128, with further description on p. 119.

$10,000 - 15,000 A standing camel under a whitish straw glaze also modelled with an
emphasized neck main, a long snout and a similar treatment of the
隋/初唐 綠釉陶臥駝一對 head tufts and laden with a heavy load, similarly tied by ropes under
the belly, and over the forelegs and hind-quarters, see John Ayers,
Far Eastern Ceramics in the Victoria and Albert Museum, Tokyo,
1980, monochrome pl. 40, formerly in the Eumorfopoulos Collection.

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