PROPERTY FROM THE HAROLD AND RUTH NEWMAN COLLECTION A MASSIVE AND RARE BUFF POTTERY FIGURE OF A CAMEL AND MONKEY RIDERTang dynasty Naturalistically modelled standing four-square on a pierced rectangular base, raised on tall limbs and with a upward curling neck with raised head, the saddle cloth weighed-down by an elaborate cargo of monster-mask saddle-bags and coils of twisted cloth, with horizontal boards to further support a variety of vessels, game birds, joints of meat, a hare and other provisions, atop which sits a monkey clinging precariously to the front hump, highlights of red, black and green and gilt pigments to the bags. 28 1/4in (73cm) high; 22 1/2in (57.4cm) long 唐 彩繪陶猴乘駱駝 Provenance: Christie's New York, 18 September 1997, lot 344 The Harold and Ruth Newman Collection, Connecticut, 1997-2022 出處： 紐約佳士得，1997 年 9 月 18 日，拍品第 344 號 康州 Harold and Ruth Newman 藏，1997-2022 Depictions of monkeys in Tang pottery are relatively rare. For two other examples, both riding camels, see a monkey on a striding camel in the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, Stockholm, illustrated in Oriental Ceramics, The World's Great Collections , Vol. 8, Tokyo, 1982, no. 35; another taller example, with a monkey similarly seated atop an array of goods tied to the camels back in the Asian Civilisations Museum, Singapore, accession no. 2003-00227, is illustrated on the museum . pare also to a Sui dynasty painted pottery laden camel of closely related form with a human rider, excavated from the tomb of Hulu Che in Taiyuan, Shanxi province, illustrated by Watt in the catalog of the exhibition, China: Dawn of a Golden Age: 200-750 AD , New York, 2004, p. 247, no. 144. The result of Oxford Authentication Ltd. thermoluminescence test no. C97c95 is consistent with the dating of this lot.