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Graphite elephant figure from Ceylon
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Production Notes include information about the design, manufacture and marketing of an object. Production notes
The elephant is thought to have been made in Ceylon c. 1878. The maker of the elephant is unknown.
History Notes include facts about what has happened to an object since manufacture. This could include who owned it and how it was used (provenance). It may also describe any cultural meanings with which it may have become associated. History notes
The elephant is thought to have been exhibited as part of the mineralogicial collection of Dr A Krantz of Bonn, Germany, in the Sydney International Exhibition. The elephant was part of a mineral collection exhibited by Dr Krantz of Bonn; he decided to sell it in Australia rather than take it home (Report by Tiina Pill, 1991). The elephant is said to have fallen through a distance of 5 metres in the 1882 fire and come out relatively unscathed.

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Description
Animal figure, carved Indian elephant, graphite, maker unknown, Ceylon, c. 1878

Elephant carved from a block of graphite. Base is flat and is carved from the same block. Elephant has short broken tusks and a piece of tree trunk in its trunk, which has broken away from a pile of branches and leaves beside the elephant's front left foreleg. The elephant has been carved in a realistic form, but the vegetation is stylized.

Designer: unknown; Ceylon

Maker: unknown; Ceylon; 1873 - 1883
The Registration Number of an object is a unique identifying number applied by the museum at the point of acquisition. Current numbering format comprises the year of acquisition, followed by a sequential number. For example, '2007/45' is the Registration Number that represents the 45th acquisition in the year 2007. Registration number
6189
Height
315 mm
Depth
324 mm

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Acquisition credit line
Purchased 1884
Subjects:
+ Sydney International Exhibition, 1879
+ Elephants
Currently on public display
+ Pocket play space


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