A CLOISONNÉ ENAMEL FIGURE OF A CAPARISONED WHITE ELEPHANT
PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF DAVID B. PECK III
A CLOISONNÉ ENAMEL FIGURE OF A CAPARISONED WHITE ELEPHANT

QIANLONG-JIAQING PERIOD (1736-1820)

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A CLOISONNÉ ENAMEL FIGURE OF A CAPARISONED WHITE ELEPHANT
QIANLONG-JIAQING PERIOD (1736-1820)
The white hide of the elephant is inlaid with gilt wires to imitate the wrinkles, and the back is draped with a fringed blanket below a saddle that supports a gu-shaped vase. The ears and tusks are gilded.
11½ in. (29.2 cm.) high
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Spink & Son Ltd., London, 1998.

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One of a pair of similar white cloisonné enamel elephants, also with gilded ears and tusks, but different trappings and vase, dated 18th century, in the Shenyang Palace Museum, is illustrated by Robert L. Thorp in Son of Heaven: Imperial Arts of China, Seattle, 1988, p. 97.

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