Lot Essay
It is interesting to see the great similarity between this bronze figure and one of Margaete Steiff' favourite pictures. The print is of a small girl with her teddy bear, titled 'Delighted'.
Details
'Bonne Chasse'
a French patinated bronze figure cast froma model by C. Thenn of a young child in hunting dress with rifle in one hand and clutching a wounded teddy bear in the other, signed in the bronze C. Thenn and Austrian foundary mark --6in. (15cm.) tall, circa 1910
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a French patinated bronze figure cast froma model by C. Thenn of a young child in hunting dress with rifle in one hand and clutching a wounded teddy bear in the other, signed in the bronze C. Thenn and Austrian foundary mark --6in. (15cm.) tall, circa 1910
See Illustration
Literature
Button In Ear, Jurgen & Marianne Cieslik, page 139