A miniature carved wood elephant with ivory tusks, with elaborate trappings of cream velvet densely embroidered in gilt thread and sequins, the gilt howda set on a red velvet cushion with gilt tassels, with a figure holding a miniature sword beneath the canopy, a boy at the neck; and an embroidered picture entitled The Memorial Well at Cawnpore, Sacred to the perpetual memory of a great company of Christian people - chiefly women and children - who, near this spot, were cruelly massacred by the followers of the rebel NANA DHOONDOPUNT of BITHOOR, and cast the dying with the dead into the well below on the XVth day of July 1857

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A miniature carved wood elephant with ivory tusks, with elaborate trappings of cream velvet densely embroidered in gilt thread and sequins, the gilt howda set on a red velvet cushion with gilt tassels, with a figure holding a miniature sword beneath the canopy, a boy at the neck; and an embroidered picture entitled The Memorial Well at Cawnpore, Sacred to the perpetual memory of a great company of Christian people - chiefly women and children - who, near this spot, were cruelly massacred by the followers of the rebel NANA DHOONDOPUNT of BITHOOR, and cast the dying with the dead into the well below on the XVth day of July 1857

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Presented to the 1st Marquess of Ripon when Viceroy of India

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