Featured OLD LOOKING ELEPHANT PLANT STAND/GARDEN STOOL - NOT PORCELAIN OR CONCRETE?

I got this today at a friend's 2nd hand furniture store (he found it in a storage auction he won). I thought it looked old & unusual compared to other elephant stands/garden stools I've come across. But it isn't made of porcelain & definitely is too light for concrete - any idea what it's made of? (it holds my weight when I sit on it)
Age? (You can see where the tusks have broken off; if they were there maybe I could tell what it's made of)
It measures 22" tall & - to me - is extremely detailed
Any thoughts on it / info about it would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!

 

2nd from last photo - it looks almost like drywall or something where paint loss is?

 

Plaster, I'd say.

 

Yep plaster it appears. Millions of these stands out there!

 

So plant stand not garden stool?
Thanks!

 

Painted plaster's what I too was thinking.......

 

Plaster would be pretty heavy as well. If relatively light, could be fiberglass. Think the tusks were probably a different material

 

I like your doggie

 

sparkle - the most spoiled dog ever!

 

I have an identical one in severe disrepair. I think its plaster of Paris.

 

Impossible. The 2 most spoiled dogs in the world live at my house!!

The one on the right in my avatar is now totally blind & if he is on the couch, which is most of the time , & I am handing out goodies while I am making something for myself it is just easier to take it to him. I am convinced he thinks that goodies just somehow fall from the sky & land right in front of his nose.

 

I like your doggie too.

 

Your pooches are gorgeous too.

 

When I pull out the treat bag my other 2 are dancing at my feet; but sparkle will lay on the bed or couch depending where she is and just slightly lift her head while she waits for me to bring her hers!

 

She obviously thinks of herself as the queen.

I take him stuff because it is just so much easier than waiting on him to get off the couch & find his way into the kitchen bumping into stuff on the way & making at least 3 wrong turns.

 

Could be ceramic but is most likely CHALKWARE and made in the 1970s.

 

I have the same elephant. I got it a our company Christmas party last year where we do a white elephant gift exchange. It is tradition that the elephant shows up every year and is passed along. It was getting in such bad shape so I decided to fix it up and repaint it. Mine did not have the tusks either.

 

Yeah, all the rage in the late 1960s/early 1970s. Most came from Italy and were ceramic.

Debora

 

When I ask my 2 (Sparkle & Keep on Truckin - named because he had a white spot on his chest as a puppy that looked like the shoe taking a step on the old 'keep on truckin' t shirts - are brother and sister but sparkle is the spoiled one - when asked if they want a bone (rawhide & chicken chew), sparkle doesn't come running like Truckin - instead she runs for couch and waits to be served. Meanwhile Truckin has to go in bedroom & jump on bed to eat it (God forbid they should lay on hard tile floor).
I can call, cajole or threaten sparkle to come get it but she won't budge because Truckin would immediately take the couch!

 

1st pic - Truckin sprawled out after eating
2nd pic - Sparkle tried to lay on new bed but it was too small - so she whined & cried & gave her shrill(!) bark she uses when she wants something until I folded another bed and put it under her head - she then went to sleep!
3rd pic - the pair asleep together; sparkle is like me & can sleep through anything, but if it's too bright or tv too loud truckin covers his face like he's praying for me to turn it off or lower the volume - and when I see him like this I usually do turn it down or if on the light off! lol