A pair of rare and large Chinese cloisonné enamel elephants 19th/20th Century

Each shown standing foursquare with head lowered, elaborately decorated in green, yellow, pink, blue, turquoise and red enamel with a design of scrolls on a white ground, the trappings, harness and headpiece richly decorated with scrolling lotus on a blue ground, embellished with gilt-bronze florettes and lion masks, hung with bejeweled tassels and studded with turquoise and coral, the saddle draped with a long saddle cloth decorated with a scaly dragon chasing the "flaming pearl", within a green ground lotus-scroll border and gilt fringe, surmounted by a balustered pedestal supporting a "flaming pearl".

Property from the Collection of Mrs. Charles Wrightsman
Sold, Sotheby's New York, May 5, 1984, lot 64

Good condition, good quality. Some rubbing and losses to the gilding, but the enamel is generally in good condition as are the turquoise and coral insets. One elephant with small dents on one side and minor enamel losses to both elephants on their sides and feet. One gilded tassel is detached but present. The surface is stable. Very attractive and of large scale.
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