Artist: Arita Ware, Nabeshima Style
Date: 1685
Museum: Porcelain Collection (Dresden, Germany)
Technique: Porcelain
This figure of an elephant modelled in a standing position is surprisingly lively. It turns is raised head and trunk to the right. Its large eyes gaze at the observer and with its slightly opened mouth it seems about to trumpet. Its legs are sturdy, its small ears delicately modelled. The eyes and brows of the animal are painted black, the mouth red. Its back is covered in a cloth which is bound with a tasselled cinch in red decorated in the
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