

A smaller yellow and brown jade elephant formerly in the collection of Dr Ip Yee collection, attributed to the 15th/16th century, included in the exhibition Chinese Jade Carving, Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong 1983, cat. no. 151, was sold at Christie’s New York, 20th/21st March 2014, lot 2481. Compare also a russet jade figure of an elephant and boy, attributed to the Yuan to Ming dynasty, from the collection of H.R.H. Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester, sold at Christie's Paris, 10th December 2014, lot 5, and again in these rooms, 3rd October 2017, lot 3758.