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A GLAZED WHITE WARE JAR AND COVER A LARGE SANCAI-GLAZED POTTERY FIGURE OF A BACTRIAN
CAMEL
TANG DYNASTY (AD 618-907)
Of ovoid form, the jar is covered inside and out with an ivory-toned clear glaze TANG DYNASTY (AD 618-907)
which stops at the foot. The domed cover is surmounted by a plain knob and The camel is modeled standing foursquare with the head thrown back and the
similarly glazed. mouth open in a bray. The blanket ftted over the humps has a green-glazed
7√ in. (20 cm.) high, Japanese wood box fringe and is splashed in green and amber glazes, while the body is covered in a
rich amber glaze and the roughly textured areas of hair are glazed cream.
$6,000-8,000 31Ω in. (80 cm.) high

PROVENANCE $50,000-70,000

Acquired in Japan prior to 1997. PROVENANCE

Tang jars and covers of this type were made in various sizes and often with a Acquired in Hong Kong, 1999.
monochrome glaze. Other white ware examples with a clear glaze include a
similar jar and cover of comparable size in the Victoria and Albert Museum, The Bactrian camel was not indigenous to China, but was imported by the
illustrated by M. Prodan, The Art of the T’ang Potter, 1961, pl. 100 and another tens of thousands from the states of the Tarim Basin, Eastern Turkestan
example of larger size (24.2 cm. high) illustrated in Early Chinese ceramics and Mongolia. They were used by the court and merchants for local
and works of art, Eskenazi, London, 1974, pl. 14. A jar of this type with cover transportation and the ‘ships of the desert’ linking China to the cities of
(21.7 cm. high), as well as four jars without covers, of varying sizes (14.3 to central Asia, Samarkand, Persia and Syria.
25.5 cm. high), are illustrated in Mayuyama, Seventy Years, Vol. 1, Tokyo, 1976,
p. 97, pl. 261 and p. 83, pls. 219-22. A similar fgure of a Bactrian camel with a fringed and splash-glazed
唐 白釉蓋罐 blanket, and cream glaze on the heavy areas of hair in contrast to the amber
body is illustrated by Mizuno in Toujitaikei, vol. 35, Tousansai (Tang sancai),
Heibonsha series, 1977, pl. 100. See, also, the similar fgure of slightly larger
size (83 cm.) sold at Christie’s Paris, 15 June 2005, lot 130.
唐 三彩駱駝

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