QIANLONG-JIAQING PERIOD (1736-1820)

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.