A Large Mid-20thC Painted Papier-mâché Nodding Elephant c.1940-60 Doe & Hope X Hannah Matthews and a wide range of

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A Large Mid-20thC Painted Papier-mâché Nodding Elephant c.1940-60 Doe & Hope X Hannah Matthews and a wide range ofOrigin: 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.