Elephant as an auspicious symbol of peace is a classic theme in traditional Chinese art, especially common in the Shoushan stone carvings of Qing Dynasty. The texture of this lot is pure and condensed, the color quaint and full, the shape of the instrument square and generous, and the color of the orange skin yellow and red all over. This lot was substantially worked in the round as a caparisoned elephant standing foursquare with its head turned backwards, a boy depicted dressed in loose robes and clambering atop the elephant, hands folding together, the elephant further harnessed with decorative trappings and detailed with naturalistically outlined wrinkles across the body, the stone of orange colour extensively accentuated with red patches. The Wei Gu School was founded by Gui Fu, a scholar in Qing Dynasty. Gui Fu (1736-1805) was a known scholar from Qufu, Shandong Province, specialized in the study of Shuowen Jiezi ('Explaining Graphs and Analyzing Characters') - an early-2nd-century Chinese dictionary from the Han Dynasty. He is the author of 50 volumes of books analysing Shuowen Jiezi.