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A rare pair of finely modelled white porcelain elephants each standing with left foot forward, trunks curled beneath tusks, the features naturalistically picked out in colours, each with impressed stamps under the front feet. Elbogen
Comparative examples illustrated:
Spencer-Churchill, Henrietta "Blenheim and the Churchill family" p139, The Duchess's sitting room.
The Duchess of Devonshire, "Chatsworth The House" p157, The Duchess's sitting room.
The Elbogen porcelain factory was founded on the Austrian / Czech border in 1815 by Rudolf K and Eugen K Haidinger. It was named Haideinger Brothers Porcelain Factory in Elbogen, and was also known as Vienna Porcelain and Earthenware Factory. The factory was located in the Czech city of Loket, which was known as Elbogen whilst under Austrian rule. Like Samson of France, the Elbogen workshops produced a number of designs in the eighteenth century manner inspired by Chinese and European models. Towards the end of the 19th century they specialised in producing finely modelled animalia and chinoiserie figures of which, these elephants are among the most striking.