A bronze censer shaped as an elephant

CIRCA 1800, SIX CHARACTER MARK

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A bronze censer shaped as an elephant
Circa 1800, six character mark
The elephant raising his curled trunk, adorned with tasselled jewels suspending from a wave- and dragon-pattern cloth on his back, surmounted by a two-tiered pagoda with bells hanging from the roof, a coiling dragon forming the finial (minor chips, some parts missing)
42 cm high (2)

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