A rare and large Chinese famille-rose figure of an elephant Late 18th / Early 19th century

modeled standing foursquare with head turned to one side and slightly lowered, molded with light wrinkles throughout the body, wearing a large iron-red ground cloth painted with a gilt dragon pursuing 'flaming pearls' painted on each side within a green border terminating in multi-colored tassels, fastened by a similarly colored harness with gilt-edge, all beneath an oval-shaped pink flower-patterned cloth with blacked silver and gilt border, the front of the simulated shagreen saddle raised, all surmounted by a compressed yellow-ground gu-form vase painted in the mid-section with blue dragons amidst floral sprays
height 15 1/8 in.; 38.4 cm