A PALE CELADON JADE CAMEL

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A PALE CELADON JADE CAMEL
TANG/SONG DYNASTY, 8TH-13TH CENTURY

Well carved in the round as a recumbent camel with its legs tucked under its body and a rounded head with pricked-back ears, the fur around its two humps demarcated by fine incised lines, with a circular aperture drilled between the humps to the underside, the stone of a pale green tone with areas of russet inclusions
2 1/4 in. (5.7 cm.) long

出版

Robert Kleiner, Chinese Jades from the Collection of Alan and Simone Hartman, Hong Kong, 1996, no. 32

展览

Christie's New York, 13-26 March 2001
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, August 2003 - December 2004

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Compare with a few jade camels of approximately the same date: one from the McElney Collection, dated Tang, illustrated by James Watt, Chinese Jades from Han to Ch'ing, New York, 1980, p. 61, no. 40; another two, dated to the 10th century, illustrated ibid., nos. 41 and 42; an example from the collection of Mr. and Mrs. Richard C. Bull, dated Tang dynasty or later, sold at Sotheby's New York, 6 December 1983, lot 212; and a yellow jade camel, dated Song-Ming dynasty, sold at Christie's Hong Kong, The Gerald Godfrey Private Collection of Fine Chinese Jades, 30 October 1995, lot 867.