Ebony and Bone Elephant Bookends
You must be a subscriber, and be logged in to view price and dealer details.
Subscribe Now to view actual auction price for this item
When you subscribe, you have the option of setting the currency in which to display prices to $Au, $US, $NZ or Stg.
- Ebony - Ebony is a close grained timber, black in colour. It has a fine texture which can be polished to a high gloss, making it suitable for venereering, inlay and stringing and its use as solid timber is resticted to small decorative items and ornamental decoration, such as chess pieces and musical instrument parts. The term "ebonised" means "faux ebony", timber that has been darkened during the polishing process to resemble ebony.
This item has been included into following indexes:
Visually similar items
Bookends. Pair of early 20th century ebony elephants
SylvaC large and small black elephants 768 & 769
A bronzed elephant, and a bronze sphinx. Early 20th century, America (elephant) with maker's initials for Jennings Bros; the other unmarked. The naturalistically hollow cast figure of a walking and trumpeting elephant, relief initials of Jb underside, and
A pair of amusing elephant form spelter bookends with black marble bases, French, circa 1930 signed Franjou, 12.5 cm high, 12 cm wide, 8 cm deep (base)