News:

Welcome to the SoA Forum.  You are welcome to browse through and contribute to the Forums listed below.

Main Menu

Byzantine lead elephant Ebay

Started by aligern, January 23, 2015, 09:43:01 PM

Previous topic - Next topic

aligern


Jim Webster

#1
Intriguing. No howdah

Jim

Imperial Dave

not sure that the condition could be highlighted as being 'perfect' - a very subjective description!
Slingshot Editor

tadamson

I might suspect 18th c    ::)

The provenance would be interesting...

aligern

Well I looked at the seller's history and other sales and they look good. He is selling a collection and appears to be ready to stand behind its authenticity
Also, the  figure's costume is right for the period they claim and would be a lot less right for 1000 years later.

If you knew of other lead elephants from the 18th century that would place this in a typology, then that would make a case, but so far there is nothing to say that the vendor is describing this piece wrongly.

Roy