A CELADON AND RUSSET JADE ‘ELEPHANT AND BOY’ GROUP MING DYNASTY |

substantially worked in the round as a caparisoned elephant standing foursquare with its head turned backwards, a boy depicted dressed in loose robes and clambering atop the elephant, holding a vase with his left hand and a ruyi sceptre in his right, the elephant further harnessed with decorative trappings and detailed with naturalistically outlined wrinkles across the body, the stone of a yellowish-celadon colour extensively accentuated with russet patches, wood stand