A grey pottery figure of a loaded camel, Northern Wei dynasty, 6th century

Lot 389. A grey pottery figure of a loaded camel, Northern Wei dynasty, 6th century. H. 23,5 cm. Estimate 2.500/3.500 €. Lot sold 2.800 €. Courtesy Nagel

The modelled figure resting on a flat base and hollow inside. With traces of a dark red pigment.

Age measurement confirmed by Thermoluminescence Analysis 30th November 1998 (Oxford Authentication, no. C298h82). 

Provenance: Bought in 1995 from L.H.W. Limited & Treading, Hong Kong.

Described and illustrated in: Collection Julius Eberhardt. Early Chinese Art, vol. 1, Hong Kong 1999, p. 196f.

For a related camel figure see Koagu (5/1972), pl. 9, fig. 2 centre.