Meissen-esque Hand-painted Porcelain Pug vintage shop drawings bending two and fro as

bending two and fro as the cart is pulled along by the string (or just given a push

The view of it from above is very nice too

satisfying to hold

to bring good fortune wherever one goes

purchased from the estate of art professor & art historian Jill McKeever Furst

Meissen-esque Hand-painted Porcelain Pug vintage shop drawings bending two and fro asWhen I found this one the other day in Vermont it struck me as quite a fine little thing I don't buy much porcelain but have had a few Herend animals and figures and it feels like that in the hand. A little research reveals that the most renowned maker of porcelain pugs is Meissen (Germany), most of them modeled after a series of pugs by the Meissen factory's chief modeler Johann Joachim Kaendler in 1740 1741. (Interestingly, it appears that one of