A PAIR OF CHINESE CLOISONNÉ ELEPHANTS AND RIDERS
19TH/20TH CENTURY
The large white enamelled beasts with long gilt tusks and ears, each swinging their heads in a frontal stance and wearing blue foliate harnassing, a large cloth over the beasts back forming the saddles for the seated figures decorated with cranes in flight, the riders wearing long robes depicting scrolling lotus on a turquoise ground and wide brimmed gilt hats, each holding a ruyi-septre within their hands
12¼ in. (31 cm.) high, fitted wood stands (2)
A PAIR OF CHINESE CLOISONNÉ ELEPHANTS AND RIDERS
19TH/20TH CENTURY
The large white enamelled beasts with long gilt tusks and ears, each swinging their heads in a frontal stance and wearing blue foliate harnassing, a large cloth over the beasts back forming the saddles for the seated figures decorated with cranes in flight, the riders wearing long robes depicting scrolling lotus on a turquoise ground and wide brimmed gilt hats, each holding a ruyi-septre within their hands
12¼ in. (31 cm.) high, fitted wood stands (2)
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