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18TH-19TH CENTURY
细节
A PAIR OF CLOISONNÉ ENAMEL ELEPHANTS
18TH-19TH CENTURY
The elephants are made in mirror image, each with a head and body in white enamel with gilt wires suggesting wrinkled skin, yellow eyes and gilt tusks, and each caparisoned in a brightly patterned harness and a saddlecloth decorated with a bat suspending a tasseled musical stone containing the character ji and ending in a bejeweled yellow-ground fringe. Each elephant supports a double-gourd vase decorated with lotus sprays.
12 ½ in. (31.8 cm.) long
18TH-19TH CENTURY
The elephants are made in mirror image, each with a head and body in white enamel with gilt wires suggesting wrinkled skin, yellow eyes and gilt tusks, and each caparisoned in a brightly patterned harness and a saddlecloth decorated with a bat suspending a tasseled musical stone containing the character ji and ending in a bejeweled yellow-ground fringe. Each elephant supports a double-gourd vase decorated with lotus sprays.
12 ½ in. (31.8 cm.) long