Antique Chinese Export Porcelain Canton Famille Rose Elephant Candlestick 1860 Drawings & Prints Weight is 1360 grams

Weight is 1360 grams

the doors having very unusual astragal decoration of neo-classical urns with swags & surmounted with 'Prince of Wales' fleur des lys finials

To the rear is a carrying handle

From the Mabel Brady-Garvan Collection Ex Yale University Art Gallery Collection

one very tiny hole lower left

Antique Chinese Export Porcelain Canton Famille Rose Elephant Candlestick 1860 Drawings & Prints Weight is 1360 gramsA good antique Chinese Qing dynasty famille rose porcelain candleholder, circa 1860. This very attractive antique Chinese porcelain elephant is hand painted in the Canton famille rose palette, and profusely gilded throughout. The elephant having a Gu form candleholder, decorated with a famille rose design and having a gilded rim, below is a caparison (an ornamental covering over a saddle) also decorated in the famille rose palette. The elephant is