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PROPERTY FROM THE HAROLD AND RUTH NEWMAN
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A RARE PAIR OF PAINTED GREY POTTERY FIGURES OF Provenance
RECUMBENT CAMELS Sotheby’s New York, 3 June 1992, lot 165
Early Tang Dynasty The Harold and Ruth Newman Collection, Connecticut, 1992-2022
Each realistically modeled with heads turned to one side and
braying, displaying flared nostrils and open mouths, the humps 出處：
of each Bactrian falling to opposite sides and covered below with 紐約蘇富比，1992 年 6 月 3 日，拍品第 165 號
a blanket which is painted in a white pigment with a cross-hatch 康州 Harold and Ruth Newman 藏，1992-2022
design that forms an attractive horizontal stripe across the camels,
two large bulging bags straddle the humps and are painted with a This pair of camels is highly unusual in have four holes to the
tiger-skin-like design, the remainder of the bodies are highlighted underside for the insertion of legs, presumably wood ones, for
in a red pigment, save for the faces which have white pigment with support in the tomb. Most models of recumbent camels appear to
black details, the underside with four square slots possibly to receive have the folded legs carved as part of the sculpture itself, often with
wooden legs. the bent rear legs protruding behind the camels hind-quarters. For an
12 1/4in (31.1cm) long; 8 1/4in (21.2cm) high example, see a camel with a monster-mask saddle bag in the Asian
Civilisations Museum, accession no. 1997-01942 on the Museum
$7,000 - 10,000 website; and another was sold at Bonhams, London, 11 May 2021,
lot 72.
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