A JAPANESE ELEPHANT-SHAPED KORO (INCENSE BURNER AND COVER) EDO OR MEIJI, 19TH CENTURY The recumbent pachyderm with its head slightly turned to the right, the surface with a bluish-white glaze and the eye with an iron-brown dot, the lid pierced with four circular apertures, the base with gauze marks, in a tomobako wood box, 18cm. (3) Provenance: an Irish private collection, Dublin. PLEASE NOTE THIS LOT IS TO BE OFFERED WITHOUT RESERVE.