Large Antique Austrian Gilded Bronze Desk Set Sculpture Pug Dogs & Puppies, Circa 1910 Drawings & Prints 2006: The Best Museum Solo

2006: The Best Museum Solo Show Award

25" long X 12

The plaque mounted in its original gilt framed case  of "Black Eagle

Mitchell had created a range of ornately carved chairs in the late 19th and very early 20th century

and by the art historian Robert Loescher

Large Antique Austrian Gilded Bronze Desk Set Sculpture Pug Dogs & Puppies, Circa 1910 Drawings & Prints 2006: The Best Museum SoloSOLD 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