THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN
A WHITE JADE ELEPHANT GROUP
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A WHITE JADE ELEPHANT GROUP
QIANLONG
Carved as a caparisoned elephant standing foursquare, draped with a fringed cloth carved in low relief with rocks and waves below bats and cloud whorls, attended by two boys, one straddling the rounded curve of the animal's back, and holding auspicious objects including a ruyi sceptre suspending a musical stone, the other standing by its rear haunch and carrying a vase issuing clouds of vapour enveloping a yinyang symbol, the well-polished semi-opaque stone of greenish-white tone with samll areas of pale brown inclusions--6 1/8in. (15.6cm.) high, box
QIANLONG
Carved as a caparisoned elephant standing foursquare, draped with a fringed cloth carved in low relief with rocks and waves below bats and cloud whorls, attended by two boys, one straddling the rounded curve of the animal's back, and holding auspicious objects including a ruyi sceptre suspending a musical stone, the other standing by its rear haunch and carrying a vase issuing clouds of vapour enveloping a yinyang symbol, the well-polished semi-opaque stone of greenish-white tone with samll areas of pale brown inclusions--6 1/8in. (15.6cm.) high, box