A Porcelain Model of an Elephant
Hirado Ware, Edo Period (18th Century)
With raised trunk, long spatulate ears and bushy tail curved flat below the hindquarters, and with pierced nostrils and mouth to allow for the issuance of smoke from a tray of burning incense placed within the hollow interior, decorated with a transparent glaze of high gloss and distinct greenish tinge, pronounced in the recesses, hollow interior also glazed, flat perimeter on underside unglazed
9in. (22.8cm.) long