Sale 1794
New York
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24 January 2007
Price realised
USD 4,800
Estimate
AN UNUSUAL BLUE AND PUCE ELEPHANT CANDLEHOLDER EARLY 19TH CENTURY Modelled recumbent, its ears and blanket in blue and white, its body lavender 8 in. (20.2 cm.) long
Provenance
The Mildred R. and Rafi Y. Mottahedeh Collection, Sotheby's, New York, 19 October 2000, lot 403
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Literature
D.S. Howard and J. Ayers, op. cit., vol. II, pp. 608-609, pl. 636
Exhibited
Arts Council, 1958, no. 197 Virginia Museum, 1981-82 China Institute in America, 1984
For a similar pair in sepia see W.R. Sargent, The Copeland Collection, The Peabody Museum of Salem, 1991, pp. 242-243, pl. 122.
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