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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Apr 3, 2018 | Sotheby's | Hong Kong | Important Chinese Art | 3643 | $****** - ****** | AN INLAID LACQUERED WOOD AND CLOISONNE ENAMEL 'ELEPHANT' INCENSE BURNER |
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35.6 cm (14.02 in)
The Estate of a French private collector, acquired between the 1950s and the 1980s.
Christie’s Paris, 12th June 2012, lot 54.
the lacquered wood well modelled to depict an elephant standing foursquare with the head slightly turned to the left and suspending a soapstone ornament, the tusks of the beast rendered with ivory, the body depicted with wrinkled skin and adorned with a tasselled zitan caparison decorated on each side of the elephant with a shou medallion flanked by two bats and depicted with ruyi cloud scrolls and crashing waves within key-fret and beaded frames, supporting a removable polychrome lacquer straddle picked out with auspicious motifs, including bats, lotus blooms and ruyi heads, the body of the elephant hollowed to support a painted wooden base below a gilt-bronze and cloisonné enamel gu vessel, the details meticulously accentuated with various inlays, including mother-of-pearl and ivory
