CHINE, DYNASTIE QING, ÉPOQUE JIAQING (1796-1820)

A pair of very similar cloisonné enamel elephants displayed on very similar stands is shown in situ in a photograph of the Dowager Empress Cixi's bedroom illustrated in Gugong Bowu Yuan Cang Ming Qing Gong Ting Jiaju Daquan (Furniture of the Ming and Qing Palaces as Collected in the Palace Museum), Beijing, 2006, p. 698, fig. 800.