A Large Mid-20thC Painted Papier-mâché Nodding Elephant c.1940-60 sub-Art & Sculpture This piece was crafted under

This piece was crafted under exclusive license from Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy Inc

The Smaller: 40” wide x 13” deep x 9” high

Though their false teeth

embroiderers before the sixteenth century restricted the use of metal threads to visible surfaces of the work

it would have been painted with a number for the congregation

A Large Mid-20thC Painted Papier-mâché Nodding Elephant c.1940-60 sub-Art & Sculpture This piece was crafted underOrigin: EnglishPeriod: Mid 20thCProvenance: UnknownDate: c.. 1940 60Height: 22Width: 34Depth: 12 (all at extremities)The most likely unique and most certainly charming large hand painted model of a stylised elephant at almost three feet long, with a nodding weighted head, the whole black painted with brown highlighted feet and ivory painted tusks, and with wooden soles to its feet, the whole surviving from the second quarter of the twentieth century.