A Large Mid-20thC Painted Papier-mâché Nodding Elephant c.1940-60 sub-Art & Sculpture and signed and dated lower

and signed and dated lower right J

but the tall hat may have influenced it with narrow curved brim worn by gentlewomen when horse riding

embroiderers before the sixteenth century restricted the use of metal threads to visible surfaces of the work

The Smaller: 40” wide x 13” deep x 9” high

with stiff leather handles

A Large Mid-20thC Painted Papier-mâché Nodding Elephant c.1940-60 sub-Art & Sculpture and signed and dated lowerOrigin: EnglishPeriod: Mid 20thCProvenance: UnknownDate: c.. 1940 60Height: 22Width: 34Depth: 12 (all at extremities)The most likely unique and most certainly charming large hand painted model of a stylised elephant at almost three feet long, with a nodding weighted head, the whole black painted with brown highlighted feet and ivory painted tusks, and with wooden soles to its feet, the whole surviving from the second quarter of the twentieth century.