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a portrait of his wife
The family that owned this piece of furniture originally would have acquired it with the idea of it making them appear wealthier
Height: 62
Cairness House
surviving from the early Victorian period
A Large Mid-20thC Painted Papier-mâché Nodding Elephant c.1940-60 Doe & Hope X Hannah Matthews a portrait of his wifeOrigin: 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.