A LARGE BRONZE 'ELEPHANT' CENSER AND COVER 17TH / 18TH CENTURY

the ovoid body standing on three large elephant-head legs set with blue beads below an elaborate relief-cast lotus meander and two elephant heads raised and trunks extended to form handles, the domed cover pierced with further lotus below a recumbent elephant caparisoned with a howdah on its back in the form of an urn filled with auspicious objects, apocryphal four-character Xuande mark in relief (2)