19th Century Pair of Ebony Elephants

A splendid pair of 19th Century Anglo-Indian carved ebony open arm library chairs; finely carved in solid ebony.  From the Galle District, Ceylon (Sri Lanka). The shaped crest rails finely carved with a large central scallop shell flanked by scrolling foliage; above shaped caned backs with styff leaf and reeded frames, having long scrolled arms headed with scroll corbels and terminating within S shaped scrolls. The cane seat with moulded frames and leaf carved front rail with carved large flower head corners.  Raised on tapering reeded legs carved with further foliate carved leaves and buns; terminating in castors. The square tapering rear legs giving the seat a slight incline for comfort.  A similar documented chair is illustrated in A Jaffer...

 A unusual late 19th Century wood carved antelope, with naive expression on his face and in a spread stance, finished in his original brightly coloured decoration. Circa 1880. H: 9...

Pair of large 19th Century Anglo-Indian, very important, wooden elephants with Kashmir work. With the quality and scale of these magnificent items, they were quite possibly made for ...

Pair of 19th century busts. These are 2 19th century Gesso painted busts of 2 archaeologists of the period. Measurements: 69 x 62 x 28 Y 65 x 60 x 30 Good condition.