Jumbo price for Japanese rarity despite the condition
Early Japanese porcelain models of animals are very rare, and this elephant form koro, c.1700, offered for sale as part of the Woolley & Wallis (25/12% buyer’s premium) Japanese works of art sale appears to be unrecorded.
Measuring a massive 15in (38cm) across, the large pachyderm is modelled standing four-square, its …