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Loaded Bactrian Camel
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Loaded Bactrian Camel

CultureChinese
DateSui (581-618 C.E.)-Tang dynasty (618-906 C.E.)
MediumEarthenware with traces of pigments
DimensionsOverall: 10 1/2 × 14 × 7 3/4 inches (26.67 × 35.56 × 19.69 cm)
Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust
Object number31-136/10
On View
On view
Gallery Location
  • 229
Collections
DescriptionKneeling camel with upraised head and open mouth. Loaded with large packs strapped in place on its back. Unglazed clay with paint.Provenance

Celestin Liu;

Purchased from Celestin Liu by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1931.

Published References

Ross E. Taggart, George L. McKenna, and Marc F. Wilson, eds., Handbook of the Collections in The William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, Kansas City, Missouri, vol. II, Art of the Orient. (Kansas City, MO: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1973), 82 (repro.).

Roger Ward and Patricia J. Fidler, eds., The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: A Handbook of the Collection (New York: Hudson Hills Press, in association with Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1993), 289 (repro.).

Deborah Emont Scott, ed., The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: A Handbook of the Collection, 7th ed. (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 2008) 321, pl. 114 (repro.).

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