Two Chinese blue and white recumbent elephant-form candlesticks, Jiaqing

H.: 12,3 cm (the tallest)
H.: 10,5 cm (the smallest)

Provenance: 
- The Geoffrey Middle Collection, UK. 

Ref.: 
- Cohen & Cohen 2014, 'A Game of Bowls', p. 106, nos. 76 and 77 for two comparable polychrome examples. The authors also illustrate a blue and white example from the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, identical to the taller of these two, but dated as late Ming and described as a hookah base. (inventory number V&A 1618-1876)
- C. Shimizu, 'L'odyssée De La Porcelaine Chinoise', p. 111, no. 43, for a near-identical example to the taller of these two in the Musée Adrien Dubouché, France, but dated as late Ming. (inventory number ADL 541). 
- W. R. Sargent, 'The Copeland Collection: Chinese and Japanese Ceramic Figures', pp. 242-243, nos. 121 and 122 for two related polychrome pairs. 
- J. G. Veiga, 'Chinese Export Porcelain in Private Brazilian Collections', p. 110 for a related polychrome example. 

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