19TH CENTURY
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A PAIR OF FAMILLE ROSE ELEPHANTS AND RIDERS
19th century
Modelled striding as if in a procession with curled-up trunks, wearing a large tasselled saddle blanket with dense flower-scroll decoration on the yellow-enamelled ground, carrying a young boy seated before a rectangular howdah, colourfully enamelled with bats, flower medallions, stripes and minor decorative bands, the body overall enamelled in a light apricot with gilt details to the head and tassels, head and part of upper body of one boy restuck
9½in. (24.1cm) long, carved wood stands (2)
19th century
Modelled striding as if in a procession with curled-up trunks, wearing a large tasselled saddle blanket with dense flower-scroll decoration on the yellow-enamelled ground, carrying a young boy seated before a rectangular howdah, colourfully enamelled with bats, flower medallions, stripes and minor decorative bands, the body overall enamelled in a light apricot with gilt details to the head and tassels, head and part of upper body of one boy restuck
9½in. (24.1cm) long, carved wood stands (2)