A PAIR OF CLOISONNE ENAMEL CAPARISONED ELEPHANTS
18TH/19TH CENTURY
Each blue-gray body inlaid with wavy gilded wires representing the wrinkled hide, the blankets and gu-form vases surmounting their backs decorated with lotus scrolls in blue and turquoise enamel and the trappings inlaid with turquoise-color beads, beads replaced, one tusk replaced, loss of enamel to one ear--9¾in. (24.8cm.) high (2)
A PAIR OF CLOISONNE ENAMEL CAPARISONED ELEPHANTS
18TH/19TH CENTURY
Each blue-gray body inlaid with wavy gilded wires representing the wrinkled hide, the blankets and gu-form vases surmounting their backs decorated with lotus scrolls in blue and turquoise enamel and the trappings inlaid with turquoise-color beads, beads replaced, one tusk replaced, loss of enamel to one ear--9¾in. (24.8cm.) high (2)
