Large Antique Austrian Gilded Bronze Desk Set Sculpture Pug Dogs & Puppies, Circa 1910 Sculpture the jar having twin blue

the jar having twin blue concentric rings to the base

1990: 10 Visual Arts Award

59" wide X 53

The painting circa 1580

7" diameter X 4" deep

Large Antique Austrian Gilded Bronze Desk Set Sculpture Pug Dogs & Puppies, Circa 1910 Sculpture the jar having twin blueSOLD 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