Antique Elephants

These large bronze vases have flared rims at the top with a raised flying bird design and isometric handles with a fantasy animal head, maybe an elephant head. Below all four sides ...

Chairs like this were a status symbol: only someone with a lot of money or a high position in the colony could commission a set with his own arms. The elephant tusks The small tusks...

The nashiji decoration continues across the interior, while the underside is signed with the Zohiko (象彦) studio mark incorporating the elephant emblem.

In the roadstead at lower left, VOC ships are shown firing salutes; at lower right, a caparisoned elephant carrying a local dignitary is led by native attendants — a decorative genre...

Over his vast career, Tucker worked on a number of famous film and theatrical sets, creating prosthetics for the likes of The Phantom of the Opera, Star Wars and The Company of Wolve...

Modelled in a dynamic stride with its trunk curled tightly upward, this English ceramic elephant displays the crisp, characterful animal modelling produced by Bretby Art Pottery in D...

The cylindrical shaft is richly engraved with a series of figures and animals, including elephants, birds, and other stylized motifs, creating a narrative quality that gives the pede...

Each stunning and diamond shaped planter is raised by elephant head feet flanking a pierced Chinoiserie st.

Both sides are uniquely decorated with five elephants in relief—an uncommon and eye-catching detail.

Set of six vintage pencil drawings/sketches of various animals and birds undertaken by Righetti for his sculptures in bronze including a boar, an elephant, two cassowaries, an ocelot...

The composition portrays an energetic hunting scene set within a forest of stylised flowering trees, featuring spearmen pursuing wild felines alongside a caparisoned elephant and a f...

The stepped rectangular lid is arranged in successive carved registers, the principal panels containing numerous animals within circular medallions, including elephants, deer or ante...

Within the flowering landscape move elephants, deer, leopards, and tigers in pursuit, a grand hunting tableau deeply rooted in Persian court symbolism.

Over his vast career, Tucker worked on a number of famous film and theatrical sets, creating prosthetics for the likes of The Phantom of the Opera, Star Wars and The Company of Wolve...

Over his vast career, Tucker worked on a number of famous film and theatrical sets, creating prosthetics for the likes of The Phantom of the Opera, Star Wars and The Company of Wolve...

Delicately hammered and carved with finely engraved jungle animals like elephants, deer, and a lion.

The wonderful gilded ormolu bases with elephant feet and pierced decoration. Batch 86 N/H

Over his vast career, Tucker worked on a number of famous film and theatrical sets, creating prosthetics for the likes of The Phantom of the Opera, Star Wars and The Company of Wolve...

The foundry supplied part of the decoration of the Trocadéro palace for the Exposition Universelle of 1878: the great cast-iron groups of North America (Ernest Hiolle), Africa (Eugèn...

At the right, riders sit in canopied howdahs on the backs of elephants, beside a mounted figure. A tapering temple tower and a domed building rise among the trees on the left, and a ...

This impressive centerpiece is raised on a richly detailed pierced Ormolu base with elephant head feet joined by a Chinoiserie st. band accented with scrolled Asian motifs.

Plate 168: Vase, quadrangular, having elephant-head handles and a molded peach-shaped panel in low relief.

Each large flat side has a panel enclosed by a fillet joined at the top by a simple ju-i head curve; the panel contains a dragon deeply engraved and extended amongst cloud forms. The...

Above these are the elephant-head handles supporting large movable rings; at the base, inside, the crystal is cut into a simple sunk border, repeated at the rim, which receives the c...

The richly composed decoration is interspersed with two animated figural vignettes: one depicting a lion bringing down an antelope, the other an elephant overpowering a tiger. Such s...

The lower half shows six triumphal arches in elevation, crowned with chariot groups, elephants, horses, soldiers and winged figures. The source captions read "Bartoli" under the fir...

Beyond the Transvaal a note reads "Unhealthy Country abounding in Elephants", and the bar scale is captioned "Scale of English Miles 69-1°".

A superb pair of Chinese late 19th century Canton enamel porcelain baluster vases, beautifully decorated in the famille rose medallion palette and with stylised gilded elephant motif...

Over his vast career, Tucker worked on a number of famous film and theatrical sets, creating prosthetics for the likes of The Phantom of the Opera, Star Wars and The Company of Wolve...

Over his vast career, Tucker worked on a number of famous film and theatrical sets, creating prosthetics for the likes of The Phantom of the Opera, Star Wars and The Company of Wolve...

Over his vast career, Tucker worked on a number of famous film and theatrical sets, creating prosthetics for the likes of The Phantom of the Opera, Star Wars and The Company of Wolve...

This antique chamberstick is fitted with a stylized Trefid pattern handle, embellished with two contemporary bright cut engraved crests of a squirrel sejant eating a nut to the right...

Rembrandt’s strikingly naturalistic conception is retained, together with the fantastic serpent and the elephant emerging from the shadowy landscape, one of the composition’s most di...

The plate is titled Un Indigestion. u porles maintenant des defenses, comme le elephants? Mais non, c’est la chevre de ce matinqui ne passe pas Indigestion – Are you talking about tu...

Majestic slate-gray hathi or elephants draped in vibrant crimson saddlecloths execute tactical combat maneuvers, using their trunks to ward off fiercely leaping bagh or tigers in a d...

Two engraved vignettes decorate the sheet: the government house at the port of Pondichery, and a caparisoned elephant. The French holdings in India survived until 1954 and are a much...

The composition is set within an arcaded courtyard dominated by a domed pavilion. Elephants stand among the crowd, and numerous figures bow towards the centre of the scene in acts of...

Instead, they honor highly respected male community elders, religious dignitaries, or celebrated warriors who successfully defeated a clan enemy, or hunted dangerous wild animals lik...

The decorative carving made on the tip of such a beam is called a kibana. Besides lions, elephants, baku (mythical tapir-like creatures), and dragons were also carved.

It rests on four volute feet with elephant heads, finished in a black patina accented with gold on the salient parts.

The French key describes officials bearing ceremonial maces, a monument displaying the deceased king’s name, elephants, horses, and a funerary carriage drawn by eight deer.

A finely detailed Nepalese gilt and polychrome copper-alloy figure of Ganesha, dating to early 20th century, circa 1900–1920. The elephant-headed Hindu deity is shown in a lively da...

Set in filigreed brass with colorful pastes and decorative enamels. The 2 elephant fobs add an unexpected Deco charm. 1920's Czech. 3.5" x 1.5".

Originally mounted atop elephants or incorporated into ceremonial carriages for nobility, this architectural piece showcases authentic craftsmanship with iron hardware accents, carve...

A series of seven framed engravings illustrating hunting in Asia: *Ceylon, elephant hunt, death of eight elephants and capture of one calf, Logolla *Gall, Tolakodo Hajosok *Ce...

The lithograph, which dates to the late 1700s, was engraved by Benoît Audran (the Elder) and depicts the final stand of the Indian king, Porus, who is the central figure with a spear...

Hand carved from solid hardwood, each vertical panel is executed in deep openwork relief with stacked scenes depicting richly caparisoned horsemen, attendants, lions, elephants, and ...

Lakshmi is flanked by two elephants holding traditional water pots/lotus flowers: a classic feature of Gaja-Lakshmi iconography.

Vintage Brass Elephant Figurine, Lucky Home Decor Sculpture, Mid-Century Design 15cm.

Hand carved and pierced decoration throughout, standing on elephant head tripod legs. There are a couple of small knocks to the corners of the frieze decoration, please refer to the...

The surface of the stand is embellished with impressive bright cut engraved scrolling leaf and floral ornamentation, incorporating a scroll bordered cartouche bearing the contemporar...

Over his vast career, Tucker worked on a number of famous film and theatrical sets, creating prosthetics for the likes of The Phantom of the Opera, Star Wars and The Company of Wolve...

Each vase is of bottle form with a flared neck and globular body, raised on a tripod plinth base and fitted with elephant mask handles. The surfaces are extensively inlaid in silver,...

A particularly large and finely carved example. The four elephant head supports with bone tusks, joined by a low x-form stretcher supporting the circular top.

FORK-TAIL PETREL - PLATE CCLX OF "THE BIRDS OF AMERICA by John James Audubon. From the "Double Elephant" folio first edition printed by Havell and published by Audubon between 1827 a...

The table / stand / pedestal feature rich carved ornaments with bone tusks in the solid rosewood "table top" supported by 3 carved ornamented elephant head legs also in solid rosewoo...

A magnificent Flemish tapestry woven in wool and silk, depicting an elaborate hunting scene and aristocratic courtship in a lush landscape populated by period figures, ornamental veg...

Over his vast career, Tucker worked on a number of famous film and theatrical sets, creating prosthetics for the likes of The Phantom of the Opera, Star Wars and The Company of Wolve...

(Left print in main photo) Alexander and Porus: The aftermath of the Battle of the Hydaspes (326 BC), where Alexander was impressed by the valor of Indian King Porus, as he continued...

Original antique political poster - I Stand Before You as a Liberal Tory Anything - featuring a satirical cartoon design by the notable New Zealand caricaturist Sir David Alexander C...