A Large Mid-20thC Painted Papier-mâché Nodding Elephant c.1940-60 sub-Beth Carter @ Doe & Hope The evocative carved and weathered

The evocative carved and weathered white marble bust showing the head and shoulders of a working class young boy

this is a very tactile

as is the flesh to the face

marked to the base Umatoyo

A Large Mid-20thC Painted Papier-mâché Nodding Elephant c.1940-60 sub-Beth Carter @ Doe & Hope The evocative carved and weatheredOrigin: EnglishPeriod: Mid 20thCProvenance: UnknownDate: c.. 1940 60Height: 22Width: 34Depth: 12 (all at extremities)The most likely unique and most certainly charming large hand painted model of a stylised elephant at almost three feet long, with a nodding weighted head, the whole black painted with brown highlighted feet and ivory painted tusks, and with wooden soles to its feet, the whole surviving from the second quarter of the twentieth century.