A Large Mid-20thC Painted Papier-mâché Nodding Elephant c.1940-60 sub-Art & Sculpture with stiff leather handles

with stiff leather handles

embroiderers before the sixteenth century restricted the use of metal threads to visible surfaces of the work

There is no damage to note to the ensemble but the two bottle green panes of glass present are later replacements (the originals would have almost certainly been frosted and etched) and the other two glass panels are lacking but the actual structure itself is totally original and the perch

The Smaller: 40” wide x 13” deep x 9” high

and there is a crack to one of the lower knob handles

A Large Mid-20thC Painted Papier-mâché Nodding Elephant c.1940-60 sub-Art & Sculpture with stiff leather handlesOrigin: EnglishPeriod: Mid 20thCProvenance: UnknownDate: c.. 1940 60Height: 22Width: 34Depth: 12 (all at extremities)The most likely unique and most certainly charming large hand painted model of a stylised elephant at almost three feet long, with a nodding weighted head, the whole black painted with brown highlighted feet and ivory painted tusks, and with wooden soles to its feet, the whole surviving from the second quarter of the twentieth century.