A Large Mid-20thC Painted Papier-mâché Nodding Elephant c.1940-60 sub-Art & Sculpture Though their false teeth

Though their false teeth

with the original stain now worn through in places whilst the drawers all run smoothly and the carcass and feet

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

it would have been painted with a number for the congregation

A Large Mid-20thC Painted Papier-mâché Nodding Elephant c.1940-60 sub-Art & Sculpture Though their false teethOrigin: 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.