Lotus Arts de Vivre Shagreen and Sterling Silver Elephant Sculpture

A fine early 20th century sculpture of an elephant. Attributed to Martha Jackson Cornwell. Depicting a stoutly modeled elephant on an integral plinth with a blanket draped across its back and an Indian headdress or harness across its forehead. Decorated in white, blue, and green glazes on a terracotta body and with inset beads or pearls to the elephant's head and forehead. Cornwell was a student of Kenyon Cox, Arthur Dow, and Augustus Saint Gaudens at the Art League in New York City at the end of the 19th Century. She was subsequently an assistant to St. Gaudens for a decade and a half on his Shaw Memorial in Boston. All in all, simply a wonderful, unique sculpture from one of America's important female sculptors of the early 20th Century! Date: Early 20th Century Overall Condition: It is in overall fair, as-pictured, used estate condition. Condition Details: With some losses to the blanket edges...

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