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PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION
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FOUR PAINTED POTTERY FIGURES OF PERFORMERS A LARGE WELL-MODELED STRAW-GLAZED BACTRIAN CAMEL
HAN DYNASTY (206 BC-AD 220) TANG DYNASTY (AD 618-907)
Two figures are shown seated with arms raised, one is shown kneeling with The camel shown standing foursquare on a rectangular platform and
the head lowered, and the fourth is shown dancing, with the extended right supporting between its two humps bulging saddle bags on which a small
arm concealed by the long sleeve of the robe. All four figures have remnants of monkey stands on all fours.
black, red and white pigments.
The largest, 9 in. (22.5 cm.) high, cloth boxes (4) $30,000-50,000
PROVENANCE:
$30,000-40,000
Galaxie Art (B. K. Wong), Hong Kong, 27 October 1989.
PROVENANCE:
Galaxie Art (B. K. Wong), Hong Kong, 25 October 1986. A similar camel with a monkey seated, rather than standing four-legged,
on the bags supported on the camel’s back, in the Museum of Far Eastern
Antiquities, Stockholm, is illustrated in Oriental Ceramics, The World's Great
The results of Oxford thermoluminescence test nos. C122a21, C122a22,
Collections, vol. 8, Tokyo, 1982, no. 35. The inclusion of a monkey on the
C122a23, C122a24 are consistent with the dating of this lot.
pack may be a whimsical notion, or may represent the trader's pet, or may
represent part of the trade goods carried by the camels.
私人珍藏
A slightly larger painted pottery figure of a camel and monkey rider was sold
漢 彩繪陶俑四件
at Christie’s New York, 18 September 1997, lot 344.
來源:

Galaxie Art (王炳權), 香港, 1986年10月25日 私人珍藏
此器經牛津熱釋光測年法測試(測試編號C122a21, C122a22, C122a23, 唐 灰釉駱駝
C122a24)，證實與本圖錄之斷代符合 來源:
Galaxie Art (王炳權), 香港, 1989年10月27日 1051
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