Su Yun treasures | Taiping Elephant, Vientiane Update: White Jade Elephant

· White Jade Elephant ·

【Name】:White Jade Elephant

【Era】:Qing

【Size】: Length 14.8cm, width 6.4cm, height 9.7cm

【Collection unit】:Suzhou Museum

【Cultural relics grade】: National first-class cultural relics

The Suzhou Museum displays a beautiful jade carving cultural relics - white jade elephant, white jade elephant height 9.7 cm, length 14.8 cm, the whole piece of jade is only the size of the palm, but the pattern is very delicate and moving. The white jade elephant is one color throughout, and the jade is white and delicate, and it is incomparably lustrous.

White jade elephants are carved in circles of white jade. Elephant as a standing person looking back to the right, with a fat posture, a child lying on his hips, a head with a gold hoop, wearing short clothes and trousers, wearing boots on his feet, holding flowers in his right hand, holding a branch in his left hand, bending his left leg, and straightening his right leg, making an upward climbing posture, looking pleasant and full of strong breath of life.

Although the elephant is huge and has amazing strength, he is easy-going, gentle and elegant, serene and dignified, often carries weight and travels far, and is the "virtuous and respected" among the beasts. Because elephants are precious in value and have many excellent characters, "elephant" is homophonous with "xiang", so the shape of the elephant is mostly seen in the Taiping dynasty, with the beautiful meaning of "taiping has an elephant", "Vientiane renewal" and "auspicious peace", which is loved by people.

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