Funerary Sculpture of a Bactrian Camel

Enlarge My gallery Comment Tag Share Download Image*
https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/collections.lacma.org-images/remote_images/ma-77736-O3.jpg?0UYV0Av5WgsCw68z7zm8LANu8jFu.t41
View comments
No comments have been posted yet.
Add a comment
Please log in to add comments.
Enter your LACMA Collections username.
Enter the password that accompanies your username.
New to our collections website? Sign up to create an account and start saving your favorites. Please note that this account is not the same as the MyLACMA account you may have for ticketing and membership transactions.
Download powerpoint quality jpeg Download publication quality tiff
Current tags
This item has not been tagged yet.
Please log in to add tags.
Enter your LACMA Collections username.
Enter the password that accompanies your username.
New to our collections website? Sign up to create an account and start saving your favorites. Please note that this account is not the same as the MyLACMA account you may have for ticketing and membership transactions.
* Nearly 20,000 images of artworks the museum believes to be in the public domain are available to download on this site. Other images may be protected by copyright and other intellectual property rights. By using any of these images you agree to LACMA's Terms of Use.

Funerary Sculpture of a Bactrian Camel

China, Chinese, middle Tang dynasty, about 700-800
Sculpture
Molded earthenware with molded, modeled, and applied decoration and polychrome (sancai) glaze
35 1/2 × 30 1/2 × 10 in. (90.17 × 77.47 × 25.4 cm)
William Randolph Hearst Collection (46.16.22)
Chinese Art
Not currently on public view

Bibliography

  • Kuwayama, George.  Funerary Art of China:  Han Through T'ang Dynasties.  Los Angeles, CA:  Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1973.
  • Los Angeles County Museum of Art Members' Calendar 1993,  vol. 31, no. 1-11 (January-November, 1993).
  • Kuwayama, George.  Funerary Art of China:  Han Through T'ang Dynasties.  Los Angeles, CA:  Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1973.
  • Los Angeles County Museum of Art Members' Calendar 1993,  vol. 31, no. 1-11 (January-November, 1993).
  • Gilbert, Rita.  Living with Art.  New York:  McGraw-Hill Companies, 2001.
  • Burkett, Richard and Nelson, Glen C.  Ceramics: A Potter's Handbook.  Fort Worth, TX: Thompson Learning, Inc., 2002.
More...