Page 92 - The art of the Chinese potter By Hobson

PLATE X

Model of a Bactrian camel with head in air. Soft white

ware with colourless glaze minutely crazed and mottled with

yellow and green. The camel is loaded with its pack, the

covering of which is in the shape of an animal's head. In

front of the pack is slung what appears to be a rolled and

Atwisted blanket. board passes beneath the pack and

blanket at the side of the animal j at its front end a ewer is

suspended and at its other end a side of bacon. The model-

ling of the figure, as of every detail, is superb. The ewer is

of special interest on account of its characteristic T'ang shape.

The one on Plate XV, though not identical, resembles the

pack ewer in general form.

This camel is part of the sumptuous furniture of a tomb

believed to be that of Liu T'ing-hsiin who died in the year

728 A.D.
T'ang dynasty. H. 33- 1".

In the possession of Mr. George Eumorfopoulos,