Vintage Double Elephant Handle Censer

Description

Brass double elephant handle censer, with three elephant trunks as legs and two elephant face as handles. Original brass color with beautiful cast pattern on. Stands atop another cloud turtle brass base. Vintage to old one of a kind piece. Originally from China.

How did elephant got into Chinese arts? The existence of elephants in ancient China is attested both by archaeological evidence and by depictions in Chinese artwork. Long thought to belong to an extinct subspecies of the Asian elephant named Elephas maximus rubridens, they lived in Central and Southern China before the 14th century BC. They once occurred as far north as Anyang, Henan in Northern China. The elephant is mentioned in the earliest received texts, including the Shijing, Liji, and Zuozhuan. The oracle bone script and bronze ware script for elephant are image depictions of an animal with a long trunk. Their modern descendant is the regular script character 象 (Standard Modern Chinese, pronounce as xiàng).

Dimensions: 9.5″ x 8″ x 8″

Vintage piece. Sell in used, pre-owned condition. Vintage and antique items by nature have variable amounts of wear, imperfections, signs of use, age and time. Perfectly imperfect. Condition shown as in pictures. Kindly contact us if you need more info. or detail pictures.