IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 138762 accession number: O.1-1951 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 17 January 2017 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Light spinach green jade, boldly carved a caparisoned standing elephant. The saddlecloth each side decorated with a bat emerging from the sea waves and surmounted by two monks, one holding a vase and the other holding a tusk. The wrinkled skin of the body and legs indicated by deep accordion folds. This object is full of symbolic motifs, the elephant represents peace, as the Chinese believe that they appears when the country is prosperous. The bat on the saddlecloth represents luck, as bat is a homophone for luck. The vase (ping) held by the monk and the elephant (xiang), together represent the phrase Tai ping you xiang(elephant appear when the country is peaceful). In addition, riding on an elephant (qi xiang) is auspicious (ji xiang) title: carving LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Mrs May Cippico in accordance with the wishes of Mrs Constance Goetze STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/138762 CATEGORIES ------ category: jade DATING ------ creation date: 1800 - 1900 creation date earliest: 1800 creation date latest: 1900 DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 17.5 dimension: Length units: cm value: 16.5 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: The Immortal Stone--Chinese Jades from the Neolithic to the twentieth century title: The Immortal Stone--Chinese Jades from the Neolithic period to the twentieth century CITATIONS -------- The Immortal Stone--Chinese Jades from the Neolithic period to the twentieth century --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/O_1_1951.jpg height: 679 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/mid_O_1_1951.jpg height: 447 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/O_1_1951.jpg height: 679 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/preview_O_1_1951.jpg height: 223 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/437/554/large_O_1_1951_200712_mfj22_mas.jpg height: 683 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/437/554/mid_O_1_1951_200712_mfj22_mas.jpg height: 333 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/O.1-1951_200712_mfj22_mas.tif surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/437/554/preview_O_1_1951_200712_mfj22_mas.jpg height: 167 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: zoom format: pyramid tiff location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/437/554/O_1_1951_200712_mfj22_mas.ptif height: 3328 pixels width: 4992 pixels