TWO MEISSEN FIGURES OF A PUG AND A CAT MOUNTED ON GILT-BRONZE CANDLESTICKS, THE PORCELAIN AND MOUNTS, MID-18TH CENTURY

Property from the Estate of Susan S. Dillon

TWO MEISSEN FIGURES OF A PUG AND A CAT MOUNTED ON GILT-BRONZE CANDLESTICKS, THE PORCELAIN AND MOUNTS, MID-18TH CENTURY

the seated pug wearing a gilt-heightened puce collar and modeled scratching his right cheek and the brown-spotted cat with a bleeding bird in its mouth, each mounted upon slightly differing gilt-bronze bases affixed at the back with scrolling branches terminating in small porcelain blossoms and supporting a central foliate candle nozzle.

heights 6 ½ in. and 7 in.

16.5 and 17.8 cm