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Description: | BRONZE ELEPHANT. With Howdah. From a Temple, Tibet.
Figure from a temple, possibly an incense burner, depicting a bronze elephant carrying a howdah. Made from three detachable pieces: elephant, and two parts of the howdah. Overall, the figure is decorated in semi-relief, with dragons on either side of saddle blanket and on top of the roof, and two panels with cranes in open-work in the middle section. There are some remains of gilding on the trunk. Three small pieces have become detached, but are still present. | Publisher: | http://www.horniman.ac.uk/ | Subjects: | clay bronze figures (ritual & belief: representations) copper gilding | Source: | Horniman Museum | Identifier: | oai:oai.horniman.ac.uk:object-70485 |
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