A YELLOW AND RUSSET JADE FIGURE OF AN ELEPHANT YUAN – MING DYNASTY |

portrayed recumbent with its legs neatly tucked beneath its corpulent body, the head depicted gently turned to the left and rendered with a protruding forehead, narrow eyes and a long curling trunk flanked by a pair of short curved tusks, the substantial body subtly detailed with grooves to depict characteristic folds of wrinkles and terminating in a long finely incised tail swept against its left haunch, the stone of a yellowish-green colour with russet streaks

Collection of Jon Edwards.
Weisbrod Chinese Art Ltd, New York.

Robert P. Youngman, The Youngman Collection of Chinese Jades from Neolithic to Qing, Chicago, 2008, pl. 107.