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The bronze elephant is cast standing foursquare on a rectangular bronze plinth before a procession of three boys dressed in colourful tunics decorated in green, turquoise and red enamels, one banging a drum, one holding a dragon banner, and a third blowing a horn. The elephant has ivory tusks and is richly adorned with lavish gilt trappings set with various stones, its headdress supports a flaming pearl and the saddle is fringed with bells and decorated in shades of turquoise, lapis lazuli blue, green and red champlevé enamels. The saddle cloth is draped from gilt monster-head terminals and decorated with dragons. The elephant supports a miniature pagoda with openwork jade plaque windows set within a galleried stand and resting on an openwork gilt bronze stem cast with two phoenix amongst clouds.15 in. (38 cm.) long