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A painted gray pottery figure of a Bactrian camel, Early Tang dynasty | 唐初 灰陶加彩駱駝

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September 26, 03:30 PM GMT

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3,000 - 5,000 USD

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A painted gray pottery figure of a Bactrian camel

Early Tang dynasty

唐初 灰陶加彩駱駝


Length 19½ in., 49.5 cm

Collection of Arthur B. Michael (1853-1942). 

Bequested to the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, in 1942 (accl. no. 1942:16.21).

Far Eastern Art in Upstate New York, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, 1976, cat. no. 25.

Andrew C. Ritchie, Catalogue of the Paintings and Sculpture in the Permanent Collection, Albright Art Gallery, Buffalo, 1949, p. 212, no. 212.

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