Lot 251
A Chinese Pottery Figure of a Young Foreign Rider on a Kneeling Bactrian Camel, Tang Dynasty (618-907), modeled in three parts: rider and saddle blanket, saddle, and camel; the turbaned foreign male rider rendered straddling an arched saddle blanket, one leg bent to secure his position; the saddle modeled with two apertures for the camel's humps flanked by flanges and pole braces; the camel rendered crouching, its front legs neatly tucked beneath its body and its back legs bent in a kneeling stance, its long, arched neck supporting a raised braying head, height 14 1/2 in., length 18 1/2 in., accompanied by an Oxford Authentication Thermoluminescence Analysis Report no. C104w61, dated October 2004. Provenance: Acquired Hong Kong, 2004. Note: The result of the Oxford Authentication Ltd. thermoluminescence test no. C104w61 is consistent with the dating of this lot. During the Tang Dynasty the trade route known as the Silk Road flourished. Most of the overland trade between China and the West was carried out by Central Asian and Near Eastern merchants. Idicative of the trade route's incredible breadth, two-hump Bactrian camels were preferred to the single-hump Arabian camels as they were more capable of traveling father distances. Figures of these camels were likely modeled for persons of rank and means. Given its choice as the primary method of transporting goods along ...
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