PROPERTY FROM THE HAROLD AND RUTH NEWMAN COLLECTION AN EXTREMELY RARE PAIR OF GREEN-GLAZED POTTERY FIGURES OF SEATED CAMELSSui/Early Tang dynasty The kneeling camels at rest with legs folded beneath their bodies, their heads raised and gazing forward, one head slightly tilted to the side, each with full saddle bags tightly tied with slender twisted ropes with large knots, various provisions attached including rolled blankets and large bolts of twisted cloth, the elaborate weighted saddle bags forcing the forward humps to lean forward and the back humps to lean back, all under a single glaze of leaf-green color that stops short above the belly to reveal the buff pottery body beneath. 16 1/2in (41.9cm) and 17in (43.2cm) long; 11 1/2in (29.3cm) high 隋/初唐 綠釉陶臥駝一對 Provenance: Sotheby's New York, 19 March 1997, lot 192 The Harold and Ruth Newman Collection, Connecticut, 1997-2022 出處： 紐約蘇富比，1997 年 3 月 19 日，拍品第 192 號 康州 Harold and Ruth Newman 藏，1997-2022 pare a similarly modeled standing laden camel in straw glaze in the collection of Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, illustrated by Li, Chinese Ceramics: A New Standard Guide , New York, 1996, p. 88, no. 128, with further description on p. 119. A standing camel under a whitish straw glaze also modelled with an emphasized neck main, a long snout and a similar treatment of the head tufts and laden with a heavy load, similarly tied by ropes under the belly, and over the forelegs and hind-quarters, see John Ayers, Far Eastern Ceramics in the Victoria and Albert Museum , Tokyo, 1980, monochrome pl. 40, formerly in the Eumorfopoulos Collection.