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A PAIR OF SANCAI-GLAZED POTTERY CAMELS Tang Dynasty (2) image 1
A PAIR OF SANCAI-GLAZED POTTERY CAMELS Tang Dynasty (2) image 2
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Lot 87

A PAIR OF SANCAI-GLAZED POTTERY CAMELS
Tang Dynasty

17 March 2025, 09:00 EDT
New York

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A PAIR OF SANCAI-GLAZED POTTERY CAMELS

Tang Dynasty
Each finely modeled and standing four-square with head held high, the quadtrefoil saddle blanket with fitted openings draped over the humps, the tall slender legs supported on a small rectangular base, the glaze with attractive brown, ocher and green with the humps, mane and mouth picked out in white, the base partially glazed revealing the buff pottery body.
25 1/8in and 25 3/8in (63.8cm and 64.5cm) high
(2).

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唐 三彩陶駱駝成對

The results of the thermoluminescence tests drawn from the ocher camel with splashed-green saddle blanket are consistent with the dating of the piece, Oxford Authentication certificate no. C199r28, 1 June 1999.

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