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Article: The Camel's Load in Life and Death: Iconography and Ideology of Chinese Pottery Figurines from Han to Tang and their Relevance to Trade along the Silk Routes.(Review)
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- The Journal of the American Oriental Society
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- April 1, 2000
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The Camel's Load in Life and Death: Iconography and Ideology of Chinese Pottery Figurines from Han to Tang and their Relevance to Trade along the Silk Routes. By ELFRIEDE REGINA KNAUER. Zurich: AKANTHUS, 1998. Pp. 159 + illus., maps. $38 (paper).
Next to the beautifully muscular, three-color glazed horses now to be seen everywhere throughout the world in museum and living-room, the Bactrian or two-humped camel was the most often depicted animal among Tang ceramics originally created as mortuary objects. Many of these camels stand with necks flexed powerfully backward and upward, their mouths open and their teeth bared as if braying proudly at the sky. Some, ...