Wandering elephants

bone, wooden base, height 21 cm, length 81 cm, depth 5.5 cm.
China, 19th/20th century.
Sculpture in the form of an arch; depicts a procession of twelve elephants, with trumpets raised; figures varying in size, from the largest at the head to the smallest at the end of the procession. Wooden base, stained and lacquered - consisting of a knotty slat laid horizontally on two forked legs and two vertical supports supporting the sculpture in the middle of the arch.