A Large Mid-20thC Painted Papier-mâché Nodding Elephant c.1940-60 sub-Beth Carter @ Doe & Hope marked to the base Umatoyo

marked to the base Umatoyo

comically outsize arms for reaching faraway limbs

It now proves brilliantly decorative merely stood in a corner

The lock is sound and the baize base is still largely in tact

A Large Mid-20thC Painted Papier-mâché Nodding Elephant c.1940-60 sub-Beth Carter @ Doe & Hope marked to the base UmatoyoOrigin: 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.