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Japanese Bronze Water Coupe, Eguchi as Fugen, Edo/Meiji Period, Japan
Located in Austin, TX
elephant, signed Kazutada, Edo to Meiji Period, mid 19th century, Japan. The small and elegant bronze
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Mid-19th Century Japanese Meiji Antique Elephants

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Bronze

"Bald Eagle", an Original Audubon Hand-colored First Edition Lithograph
By After John James Audubon
Located in Alamo, CA
first illustrations were published in a large elephant folio size. Due to their expense they were
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Mid-19th Century Naturalistic Antique Elephants

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Lithograph

Trumpeter Swan: an Original 1st Edition Hand Colored Audubon Bird Lithograph
By John James Audubon
Located in Alamo, CA
works for all to enjoy. Audubon's first illustrations were published in a large elephant folio size. Due
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Mid-19th Century Naturalistic Antique Elephants

Materials

Lithograph

Set of 4 Large Figural Chinoiserie Gilt Bronze Wall Sconces, Attributed Caldwell
By Edward F. Caldwell Co.
Located in New York, NY
with captivating brilliance. Below each figure, two intricately rendered patinated bronze elephant
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19th Century American Chinoiserie Antique Elephants

Materials

Bronze

An Extraordinary Mid-Nineteenth Century Italian Carved Walnut Chimneypiece
Located in London, GB
figures. They stand on reclining elephants with outstretched trunks. Heaven represented by twelve-winged
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Mid-19th Century Italian Antique Elephants

Materials

Wood, Walnut

Zabihi Collection Oversize Indian Antique Agra Carpet
Located in New York, NY
including birds, elephants or people. This particular piece has humans using bow and arrows to along the
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19th Century Indian British Colonial Antique Elephants

Materials

Wool

An Indian Haveli Architectural Facade with Three Windows and Balcony
Located in Chicago, IL
, with iron Jali (lattice) work above each window for ventilation. Between the jali are four elephant
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Mid-19th Century Indian Antique Elephants

Materials

Teak

QING DYNASTY 1800 Early 19th Century Pair of Bronze Censers With Lids Bases
Located in Miami, FL
and two elephants at the sides. Fitted on top with lids, which are decorated with standing foo-dogs
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Early 1800s Chinese Qing Antique Elephants

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Bronze

Rustic Indian Low Wooden Chair with Rope Seat and Weathered Appearance
Located in Yonkers, NY
An antique Indian rustic low chair from the 19th century with rope accents and elephant motifs
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19th Century Indian Rustic Antique Elephants

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Rope, Wood

Original antique brass coat hook by Adolf Loos
By Adolf Loos
Located in Vienna, AT
Elephant coat hanger was used in the apartment of Paul Khuner, 1040 Vienna. Documented in Markus : Adolf
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Early 1900s Austrian Vienna Secession Antique Elephants

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Brass

19th c. Anglo Indian Mughal Teak Bone Inlaid Round Side Table
Located in Moreno Valley, CA
elephant head decor on the feet with bone inlay figurative detail on the 3 supporting legs. Anglo Indian
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19th Century Indian Anglo-Indian Antique Elephants

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Bone, Teak

Antique French Hand-Painted Decorative Vases with Japanese-Inspired Design
Located in Tarry Town, NY
, florals, and foliage, capturing the essence of Japanese aesthetic traditions. Gilt elephant-shaped side
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Mid-19th Century French Chinoiserie Antique Elephants

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Gold

Antique Ashford Black and Pietra Dura Marble Obelisk Thermometer
Located in Wormelow, Herefordshire
a striking statement on a sideboard or mantel. Additional Information This item contains elephant
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Mid-19th Century English Neoclassical Antique Elephants

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Marble

Antique Chinese Porcelain Bowl SE Asian Thai/Malay Market Bencharong Straits
Located in Amsterdam, Noord Holland
A very nicely decorated bowl. Extremely well painted and rare with elephants/tigers and figures
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18th Century Chinese Antique Elephants

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Porcelain

Curlew Bird and Charleston, SC: Original 1st Ed. Audubon Hand-colored Lithograph
By John James Audubon
Located in Alamo, CA
elephant folio size. Due to their expense they were purchased in rather small numbers by the wealthy. To
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Mid-18th Century Naturalistic Antique Elephants

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Lithograph

Brown Pelican: An Original Audubon 1st Edition Hand-colored Bird Lithograph
By John James Audubon
Located in Alamo, CA
for all to enjoy. Audubon's first illustrations were published in a large elephant folio size. Due to
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Mid-18th Century Naturalistic Antique Elephants

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Lithograph

"The Jaguar", an Original 19th C. Audubon Hand Colored Quadruped Lithograph
By John James Audubon
Located in Alamo, CA
first illustrations were published in a large elephant folio size. Due to their expense they were
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Mid-19th Century Naturalistic Antique Elephants

Materials

Lithograph

Reddish Egrets, Adult Young: An Original Audubon Hand-colored Bird Lithograph
By John James Audubon
Located in Alamo, CA
publishing his works for all to enjoy. Audubon's first illustrations were published in a large elephant folio
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Mid-19th Century Naturalistic Antique Elephants

Materials

Lithograph

Pair of Chinese Sancai Glazed Earthenware Seats
Located in London, GB
detailed cream-coloured elephant, its trunk raised as a symbol of good fortune, striding across a rocky
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Early 20th Century Chinese Tang Antique Elephants

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Earthenware

A Pair of Indian Wooden Columns with Brackets
Located in Chicago, IL
a touch of elegance. The unique brackets showcase a hybrid motif of elephant, peacock, marigold
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Early 1900s Indian Antique Elephants

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Teak

A Pair of Indian Wooden Columns with Brackets
A Pair of Indian Wooden Columns with Brackets
$5,600 Sale Price / set
34% Off
Antique Carved Veranda Chair, Ceylonese, Teak, Ornate Seat, Victorian, C.1880
Located in Hele, Devon, GB
seat edge, with foliate patera and sitting deity relief Standing upon prominent elephant front legs
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1880s Sri Lankan Anglo-Indian Antique Elephants

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Teak

Antique Indian Decorative Art Print with Royal Textiles and Weaponry, 1887
Located in Langweer, NL
, gold, emerald, and cobalt. Peacocks, floral vines, elephants, and symbolic motifs such as the tree of
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1880s Antique Elephants

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Paper

Pre-Columbian Sinu Gold and Bead Necklace
Located in New Orleans, LA
way that Eqyptians favored cats or Ancient Indian cultures favored elephants, the Coatimundi was a
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15th Century and Earlier Colombian Antique Elephants

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Gold

Virginian Opossum: An Original Audubon Hand-colored Lithograph
By John James Audubon
Located in Alamo, CA
for all to enjoy. Audubon's first illustrations were published in a large elephant folio size. Due to
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Mid-19th Century Naturalistic Antique Elephants

Materials

Lithograph

Mid 19th Century Animalier Bronze Study entitled "Reclining Doe" by A L Barye
By Antoine-Louis Barye
Located in London, GB
open his own studio or ‘atelier’, where he produced an Elephant that would become the Duc d’Orleans
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Mid-19th Century French Art Nouveau Antique Elephants

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Bronze

Pair of Japonsime Blue Porcelain Vases Mounted as Lamps
By Ferdinand Barbedienne
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
Ferdinand Barbedienne, Paris. Each with a square shaped body. The sides decorated with elephant head
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19th Century French Japonisme Antique Elephants

Materials

Ormolu

Chinese Qing Pair Framed Armorial Famille Rose Porcelain Tiles
Located in Bishop s Stortford, Hertfordshire
with a warrior riding an elephant within a circular decorative border. Both have further painted
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19th Century Chinese Qing Antique Elephants

Materials

Porcelain

Antique Indian Decorative Art Prints: Metalwork and Textile Motifs, 1887
Located in Langweer, NL
, elephants, and figures set against intricate backdrops of vines and geometric patterns. The central panel
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1880s Antique Elephants

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Paper

Antique Chinese Carved Ruby Red Glass Overlay Clear Horses Snuff Bottle Qing 19c
Located in Richmond, CA
horse in a treed meadow scene to each side, carved elephant head and ring taoties to shoulders, having
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Early 1900s Chinese Qing Antique Elephants

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Jade

French stool in solid elm and rattan, 1950
Located in Amstelveen, NL
Robust and primitive French oak stool with unconventional proportions with very solid (elephant
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Mid-19th Century French Brutalist Antique Elephants

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Rattan, Oak

Antique Indian Silver Tea Service, 3-Piece Set - Circa 1890
Located in Jesmond, Newcastle Upon Tyne
form of an Indian elephant's head, with the tip of the spout being the end of the trunk/proboscis. The
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1890s Indian Antique Elephants

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Silver

Ceylonese 19th Century Carved Ebony Side Chair with Specimen Inlay Galle Distric
Located in Benington, Herts
are conceived as elephant trunks with a slight cabriole aspect to them. The knees have carved elephant
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19th Century Sri Lankan Antique Elephants

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Ebony

Pair of Ceylonese 19th Century Carved Ebony Side Chairs with Specimen Inlay Gall
Located in Benington, Herts
chair are conceived as elephant trunks with a slight cabriole aspect to them. The knees have carved
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19th Century Sri Lankan Antique Elephants

Materials

Ebony

Oversized Antique Chinese Peking Rug in Navy Blue with Pictorials - Rug Kilim
Located in Long Island City, NY
figures, elephants with riders, vases, floral arrangements, and various Buddhist and Taoist emblems
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1870s Chinese Antique Elephants

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Wool

Japanese Bronze Vessel with Dragon Handles and Falcon Lid
Located in Greenwich, CT
Japanese bronze vessel with pair of dragon handles, falcon lid, birds in landscape and elephant
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1890s Japanese Meiji Antique Elephants

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Bronze

Pair of Ebony and Coconut Tea Caddies
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Antique Anglo Indian pair of tea caddies with silvered metal tops having elephant handles over
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Early 20th Century Indian Anglo-Indian Antique Elephants

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Coconut

Antique Burmese Bronze 2-Frog Rain Drum
Located in Point Richmond, CA
from the handles. Under one of the pair of strap handles is a procession near the base of two elephants
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Mid-19th Century Burmese Tribal Antique Elephants

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Bronze

Teddy Roosevelt Silk Kerchief Made for His 1912 Presidential Run
Located in York County, PA
of the Elephant and Donkey. The presence of such a large moose makes this unlike other examples, none
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1910s American Antique Elephants

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Silk

Rare Scottish George III Corporation Treasury Box
Located in Greenwich, CT
, with a ribbon tied depiction of an elephant and a steer - two of the sources of comb making materials
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Mid-18th Century Scottish George III Antique Elephants

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Wood

circa 20th C. Chinese Porcelain Vases Turned-to-Lamps with French Ormolu Mounts
Located in New York, NY
flanked with gilt elephant-ear handles and have their original lids, which were later converted to lamps
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Early 19th Century Chinese Qing Antique Elephants

Materials

Ormolu

Antique 19th Century Indian Kutch Solid Silver Mug, Oomersi Mawji Bhuj c.1890
By Oomersi Mawji
Located in Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent
lion in the act of taking down an antelope, and the other featuring an elephant overpowering a tiger
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19th Century Indian Other Antique Elephants

Materials

Silver

Hawk-Moths and Butterflies: Hand-Colored Engravings, Published in 1805
Located in Langweer, NL
(Mimas tiliae), and elephant hawk-moth (Deilephila elpenor), with accompanying caterpillars and pupae
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Early 1800s German Antique Elephants

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Paper

Allegorical Print of Lithology and Conchology by Boucher Fils, 18th Century
Located in Langweer, NL
variety of seashells that bring the natural world to life. In the background, animals like elephants and
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1750s Antique Elephants

Materials

Paper

Raccoon: An Original 19th Century Audubon Hand-colored Lithograph
By John James Audubon
Located in Alamo, CA
first illustrations were published in a large elephant folio size. Due to their expense they were
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Mid-19th Century Naturalistic Antique Elephants

Materials

Lithograph

Japanese Meiji Bronze Champlevé Enamel Incense Burner, Geisha Ryu/Shishi
Located in New York, NY
smoke. Enhancing the regal charm of the burner, three patinated bronze jeweled elephant heads, with
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1890s Japanese Meiji Antique Elephants

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Bronze, Enamel

Large antique 6 Arm Dutch Brass Chandelier with Habsburg Eagle detail to stem
Located in London, GB
Habsburg double headed eagle to the top, rewired and in full working order shown with elephant grey silk
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Early 20th Century Dutch Dutch Colonial Antique Elephants

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Brass

Antique Water Bucket, Burmese, Silvered Copper, Fireside Store, Georgian, C.1800
Located in Hele, Devon, GB
verdigris and amber hues Distinctive 'elephant foot' form with wide lower bowl Tactile, engraved handle
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Early 19th Century Burmese Georgian Antique Elephants

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Copper

Burmese Bronze Rain Drum Cast Bronze Coffee Drink Table Intricate Relief Detail
Located in Bradenton, FL
sides with graduating bronze elephants. Wonderful old patina. Rain drums are named as such because of
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18th Century Thai Tibetan Antique Elephants

Materials

Bronze

Pair of Porcelain and Doré Bronze Candelabra, Barbedienne, Edouard Lievre
By F. Barbedienne Foundry
Located in New York, NY
hand chiseled ormolu elephant heads supporting each candelabra. Signed F. Barbedienne on the base
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Late 19th Century French Chinoiserie Antique Elephants

Materials

Bronze

A large hand decorated Indian Raj period brass Jardinière circa 1880
Located in Central England, GB
each side, there is an elephant mask head ring handle. The whole of the body is hand worked with
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Late 19th Century Indian Anglo Raj Antique Elephants

Materials

Brass

Eared Grebe /// John James Audubon Ornithology Havell Edition Bird Animal Art
By John James Audubon
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Engraving with Aquatint on double-elephant folio, J. Whatman paper Limited edition: approx. 180 Printer
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1830s Victorian Antique Elephants

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Watercolor, Engraving, Aquatint, Intaglio

Japanese Meiji period bronze censor.
Located in Brighton, Sussex
, trees to the reverse. The whole supported by five mythical elephant like supports. Batch 74
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Late 19th Century Japanese Antique Elephants

Materials

Bronze

Antique Indian Patinated Bronze Oil Lamp 19th Century South India
Located in Forney, TX
flanked by elephants to either side, over a shallow oil reservoir basin with pinched rim on stepped base
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19th Century Indian Anglo-Indian Antique Elephants

Materials

Bronze

Burmese Rain Drum Cast Bronze Coffee Drink Table Intricate Relief Detail, 1900s
Located in Bradenton, FL
sides with graduating bronze elephants. Wonderful old patina. Rain drums are named as such because of
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Early 20th Century Thai Tribal Antique Elephants

Materials

Bronze

Japanese mixed metal bronze vase, Meiji period.
Located in Brighton, Sussex
. Depicting a bird of pray on a perch, an Elephant with a gilded saddle and carrying a pagoda carriage, and
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Late 19th Century Japanese Antique Elephants

Materials

Bronze

Antique German Sterling Silver Cup by B. Neresheimer - 1902
By B. Neresheimer Sohne
Located in Jesmond, Newcastle Upon Tyne
musical instrument, a stag, a unicorn and an elephant. The upper portion of the body is encompassed with
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Early 1900s German Antique Elephants

Materials

Sterling Silver

1863 Hand-Colored Lithograph of European Hawk Moths and Caterpillars
Located in Langweer, NL
elpenor* (Elephant Hawk Moth) with its striking pink and green hues, and the *Agrius convolvuli
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1860s Antique Elephants

Materials

Paper

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Antique Elephants For Sale on 1stDibs

An assortment of antique elephants is available at 1stDibs. The range of distinct antique elephants — often made from metal, wood and bronze — can elevate any home. Antique elephants have long been popular, with older editions for sale from the 18th Century and newer versions made as recently as the 20th Century. Antique elephants are generally popular furniture pieces, but Folk Art, Victorian and Art Deco styles are often sought at 1stDibs. There have been many well-made antique elephants over the years, but those made by Antoine-Louis Barye, Royal Worcester and Bing Grøndahl are often thought to be among the most beautiful.

How Much are Antique Elephants?

Prices for antique elephants can differ depending upon size, time period and other attributes — at 1stDibs, antique elephants begin at $25 and can go as high as $125,000, while the average can fetch as much as $2,259.