Camel with Foreign Rider
Artist:
Unknown
Place made:China
General region:Asia
Culture: Chinese
Period: Tang dynasty
Dynasty: Tang
Date: ca. 618-906
Dimensions:
h. 34 5/16 in. (87.2 cm); w. 26 3/4 in. (67.9 cm); d. 9 3/4 in. (24.8 cm)
Credit Line: San Antonio Museum of Art, gift of Lenora and Walter F. Brown
Object number: 2013.38.11
Label Text
The braying, two-humped Bactrian camel carries a groom wearing a tunic and a conical, Central Asian hat. The camel is dressed with a mottled, two-layered saddle cloth with holes to accommodate its floppy humps. Camels were critical to Tang dynasty trade, traveling the Silk Road to connect China with Central Asia and the Near East.
(Label text, October 2014)
(Label text, October 2014)
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