A shibayama style caparisoned ivory elephant

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A shibayama style caparisoned ivory elephant
wearing decorative trappings inset in coral, mother-of-pearl, horn and coloured glass, carrying a glass ball on its back, on an oval wood base -- 3in. (9.4cm) high overall, 19th Century, signed on an inset mother-of-pearl tablet.

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