A PAIR OF CAPARISONED LAPIS ELEPHANTS, QING DYNASTY China, 18th-19th century. The animals well carved with detail work to their tusks, ears, trunk and feet, finely decorated in gold and black lacquer with a saddlecloth showing lotus flowers amid their vines and leaves and a key fret border. Provenance: From the collection of Georg Weifert (1850-1937). Thence by descent in the same family. Weifert was a Serbo-Austrian industrialist and the first governor of the Federal Bank of the Kingdom of Serbia, Croatia and Slovenia. Condition: Good condition. Some wear and scratching to gilding. Old wear and natural fissures to stones. The bases with extensive wear and traces of use. Weight: 3,366 g total (the elephants) and 509.2 g total (the bases) Dimensions: Length 15 cm (each elephant) The massive, opaque and calcite-rich stone is of striated blue and cream-white color with minuscule metallic inclusions. Fitted with carved hardwood stands from the late Qing dynasty. (4) 一對帶皮青金石大象，清代 中國，十八至十九世紀。大象細節雕刻異常精心，並用金色和黑色清漆描繪。大象背部鞍座上飾有荷花荷葉。 來源：Georg Weifert (1850-1937)收藏，同一家族保存至今 。Weifert曾爲塞爾維亞中央銀行大班以及塞爾維亞、克羅地亞與斯洛文尼亞聯邦銀行大班。 品相：品相良好，金彩処有一些磨損和劃痕。老磨損，石料有天然裂縫。底座磨損嚴重，有使用痕跡。 重量：大象總重3,366 克，底座509.2克 尺寸：大象分別長15 厘米