AN 18th CENTURY CELADON AND RUSSET JADE CARVING OF A CAPARISONED ELEPHANT The stone is of a celadon hue with grey mottling as well as russet skin in placesChina, 18th centuryThe elephant is standing sturdily foursquare, detailed with a pair of floppy ears above a long curling trunk between sharp tusks. The symbolist animal is caparisoned with a saddle draped over with a tasseled tapestry incised to both sides with the imagery of the moon above waves and at the top we see the Yin and Yang symbol flanked by two bats. The elephant is an auspicious symbol which is used in numerous rebuses to convey peace, prosperity and good fortune.Shape: SculpturalDimensions: length is 8 cm, height is 5.2 cmWeight: 272 gramsCondition: excellent condition Provenance: Ex Collection Robert Kleiner, American private Museum collection Literature comparison: compare to another nephrite carved elephant with children and ruyi, from the collection of the Beijing Palace Museum, illustrated in Jadeware (III), The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum, Hong Kong, 1995, pl. 97.Auction results comparison: QING DYNASTY JADES FROM A HONG KONG COLLECTION, Sotheby’s, Hong Kong , 1 June 2017, lot 52 (for a comparable, Russet and Celadon example). For a white Jade elephant in near identical pose and of the same size see Christie’s, Important Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art, Hong Kong , 28 November 2012, lot 2179. 十八世紀青玉立象青玉帶皮，灰褐色肌理中國， 十八世紀造型：雕塑尺寸：長8 厘米, 高 5.2 厘米重量： 272 克品相：極好 來源： 原Robert Kleiner收藏，美國私人美術館收藏