Lot Essay
Variants of this bronze dog are in the National Gallery of Art, Washington; Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nurnberg; Kunsthistoriches Museum, Vienna; and the Deutsches Museum, Berlin.
Details
A BRONZE MODEL OF SEATED HOUND shown scratching an ear with its hind paw, perhaps second half 16th century -- 2¼in. (5.7cm.) high, on an ebonised plinth.