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A MASSIVE AND RARE BUFF POTTERY FIGURE OF A CAMEL Provenance
AND MONKEY RIDER Christie’s New York, 18 September 1997, lot 344
Tang Dynasty The Harold and Ruth Newman Collection, Connecticut, 1997-2022
Naturalistically modelled standing four-square on a pierced
rectangular base, raised on tall limbs and with a upward curling neck 出處：
with raised head, the saddle cloth weighed-down by an elaborate 紐約佳士得，1997 年 9 月 18 日，拍品第 344 號
cargo of monster-mask saddle-bags and coils of twisted cloth, with 康州 Harold and Ruth Newman 藏，1997-2022
horizontal boards to further support a variety of vessels, game birds,
joints of meat, a hare and other provisions, atop which sits a monkey Depictions of monkeys in Tang pottery are relatively rare. For two
clinging precariously to the front hump, highlights of red, black and other examples, both riding camels, see a monkey on a striding
green and gilt pigments to the bags. camel in the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, Stockholm,
28 1/4in (73cm) high; 22 1/2in (57.4cm) long illustrated in Oriental Ceramics, The World’s Great Collections, Vol. 8,
Tokyo, 1982, no. 35; another taller example, with a monkey similarly
$25,000 - 40,000 seated atop an array of goods tied to the camels back in the Asian
Civilisations Museum, Singapore, accession no. 2003-00227, is
illustrated on the museum website.
唐 彩繪陶猴乘駱駝
Compare also to a Sui dynasty painted pottery laden camel of closely
related form with a human rider, excavated from the tomb of Hulu
Che in Taiyuan, Shanxi province, illustrated by Watt in the catalog
of the exhibition, China: Dawn of a Golden Age: 200-750 AD, New
York, 2004, p. 247, no. 144.

The result of Oxford Authentication Ltd. thermoluminescence test no.
C97c95 is consistent with the dating of this lot.

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