AN OUTSTANDING AND EXTREMELY RARE CELADON JADE FIGURE OF AN ELEPHANT WESTERN HAN DYNASTY skilfully worked in the round as an Asian elephant standing foursquare on its short legs with its long trunk curled to its left and its tail swished to its right, the animal depicted with characteristic dorsal bumps flanked by floppy ears, the corpulent body rendered gravitating towards the ground and delicately detailed with incisions to depict folds of wrinkles, the lustrous pale celadon-tinged white stone with calcified buff areas 8.4 cm, 3 1/4 in.
AN OUTSTANDING AND EXTREMELY RARE CELADON JADE FIGURE OF AN ELEPHANT WESTERN HAN DYNASTY skilfully worked in the round as an Asian elephant standing foursquare on its short legs with its long trunk curled to its left and its tail swished to its right, the animal depicted with characteristic dorsal bumps flanked by floppy ears, the corpulent body rendered gravitating towards the ground and delicately detailed with incisions to depict folds of wrinkles, the lustrous pale celadon-tinged white stone with calcified buff areas 8.4 cm, 3 1/4 in.
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