Description: A BACCARAT GILDED GLASS AND BRONZE ELEPHANT VASE, CIRCA 1880 In the Japanesque taste, the caparisoned elephant adorned with tassels standing with its head turned and trunk raised, on a bronze base simulating a hardwood stand, its back supporting a square-sectioned clear crystal glass vase decorated in raised gold with a Japanesque mon of orchids among prunus blossom, 35cm high overall, the underside of the elephant stamped with the Baccarat factory mark on an embossed padFootnotesAn example with the same model of bronze elephant supporting an engraved crystal glass vase was sold by Bonhams, 4 December 2008, lot 151. For these vases Baccarat copied an 18th century Chinese bronze elephant, similar to the pair sold by Bonhams, Fine Chinese Art, 14 May 2015, lot 72. Baccarat also produced a different model of a standing bronze elephant which was used to support vases of enamelled or engraved glass, see the Petit Palais exhibition catalogue, Baccarat, La Légende du Cristal, Paris 2014/2015, p.55, bottom right.