Bidspirit auction | A Collection of Eleven Ceramic

A Collection of Eleven Ceramic and Metallic Elephant Figurines including Royal Dux, Beswick, and Japanese Export Examples - This collection of eleven elephant figurines includes examples from notable European and British potteries alongside Japanese export wares. A large Royal Dux porcelain figure depicts a trumpeting elephant finished in a high-gloss graduated glaze of pale grey and brown with contrasting white tusks. The underside features a blue circular backstamp with the text Royal Dux and Made in Czechoslovakia, as well as the signature applied pink porcelain triangle mark. A Beswick Pottery figure shows an elephant in a walking pose with a raised trunk, finished in a dark brown gloss glaze, and bears an impressed Beswick England circular mark to the belly. A small Yare Designs studio pottery figurine portrays a seated elephant with a flower on its head, decorated in a multi-tonal green, blue, and brown drip glaze, with an original paper label to the green felt base. The group includes a set of four Japanese export glazed ceramic shikar figurines depicting elephants being attacked by tigers, one of which carries a black stamped mark with a stylized letter S within a wreath and Japan printed below. Also included is a stylized elephant figurine with a heavily textured sculptural surface finished in a cold-cast bronze-effect metallic glaze, a small grey-glazed elephant with a mahout figure and a tiger, and several other smaller ceramic examples in various glazes.