Elephants

Elephants on Heraldic Art.

 

Elephant jar (Brooklyn Museum 2004.28.222a-b). Cambodia - 12th C.

Elephant and rider (Brooklyn Museum 1991.79.6). Indonesia - 13th-14th C.

Tile fragment (Museum für Islamische Kunst I. 3903 b). Iran - 13th-14th C.

Elephant (Brooklyn Museum 78.257.2). Thailand - 14th C.

Elephant, Der Naturen Bloeme (Koninklijke Bibliotheek, KB, KA 16, fol 54r), 1350

Panel (V&A Museum 213-1894). Spain - ca. 1400

Medal (V&A Museum A.174-1910). Italy - 1453-1455

The Triumph of Caesar: The Elephants (National Gallery of Art 1976.11.1). Italy – ca. 1497-98

Elephant and lion (V&A Museum IM.61-1936). India - 16th C.

Hanno the Elephant from the Court of Leo X (Museum of Fine Arts Houston 2022.294). Italy – 16th C.

Figure of elephant (V&A Museum C.384-1912). China - 1500-1644

Hector of Troy, Alexander of Macedon, Julius Caesar by Lucas van Leyden (National Gallery of Art 1943.3.5707). Netherlands – 1512-15

Triumph of the Emperor Maximilian I (V&A Museum 13079:122). Germany - ca. 1516-19 

Elephant and tigers (Museum of Fine Arts Houston 2014.229.A,.B). India – ca. 1570-80 

L'Asie (V&A Museum 19338). Germany - 1575 

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