Large Antique Austrian Gilded Bronze Desk Set Sculpture Pug Dogs & Puppies, Circa 1910 Drawings & Prints The bell having a brass

The bell having a brass clapper inside and can be gently rung to alert your guests that dinner is served

The plates having unusual stylized floral decoration and decorated to the verso with a continuous floral band

2006: The Best Museum Solo Show Award

circa 1780

The twin handled koro having a reticulated lid decorated with a domestic tea ceremony scene

Large Antique Austrian Gilded Bronze Desk Set Sculpture Pug Dogs & Puppies, Circa 1910 Drawings & Prints The bell having a brassSOLD A large and rare antique Austrian gilded bronze desk set sculpture, modeled as a Pug dogs with her two puppies, circa 1910. To the center is a mother pug flanked by two pug pups, they sit before an empty handled feeding bowl. The heads are hinged and each contains a gilded metal liner, the mother dogs liner for pens the two pups for ink and sand. The bronze is very finely cast by the 'lost wax' method and gilded throughout, condition is