Style: Silver, Ceramics, Furniture
Style: Silver, Ceramics, Furniture
A PAIR OF BOW FIGURES OF PUGS CIRCA 1750
Auction Closed
April 16, 08:57 PM GMT
Estimate
5,000 - 7,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
THE COLLECTION OF MELINDA AND PAUL SULLIVAN
A PAIR OF BOW FIGURES OF PUGS
CIRCA 1750
naturalistically modeled and painted with brown fur, with iron-red collars, each recumbent on a cushion picked out in green with incised decoration around the edge
widths 4⅞ and 4½ in.
12.5 and 11.5 cm
A similarly enameled pair of these rare models is in the Jessie and Sigmund Katz Collection in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, acc. nos. 64.1016 and 1017. A further pair left in the white is in the National Museum of Scotland, acc. nos. A.1956.1207 and 1207A.