Elephant Head To Hang - Glazed Ceramic - Period: 19th Century - Late Qing Dynasty

Coming from the province of Hunan, this elephant's head, to hang, which can accommodate bouquets or offerings, is a magnificent creation in glazed ceramic in turquoise color with brown threads.

The elephant is one of the most powerful on earth and represents a symbol of protection.
In Asia, a pair of elephants are regularly found at the entrance to buildings to protect them.
It is also a very old symbol of fertility. With their impressive memory, they also represent wisdom and knowledge.
Finally, the elephant also symbolizes love and fidelity.

Period: Late Qing Dynasty - 19th Century
Dimensions: Height: 32cm x Width: 20cm x Depth: 12cm

Chinese ceramics is distinguished by the continuity of its tradition, as evidenced by a production spanning seven millennia, by the precocity of its discoveries , an unequaled mastery and technique, a profusion and a diversity beyond measure with what the West has been able to produce.

In the eyes of the Chinese, ceramics is an art much more than a craft, some pieces are prized as much as jade, the noble material par excellence. Collected for a long time, sung by poets, ceramics were often reserved for emperors and princes.

It meets the most diverse needs, tableware, or on the other hand religious material and funerary furniture.
It served the demands of Court life like those of the refined class of scholars who delighted in the pure shapes of a bowl.

Ceramics concerns not only sight, but touch and even hearing, sensitive to the sound emitted by porcelain.
Discreet, uncluttered, austere at certain times, at others it is bursting with color, vigorous, audacious.