A Very Large Mid-Century Italian Glazed Earthenware Model of a Hound c.1960 poa-item “Don’t leave Your Cat To

“Don’t leave Your Cat To Starve While You Are On Holiday”

We can’t find another even similar to this example having been sold which may suggest it was privately commissioned

each surviving from an English hospital ward from the second quarter of the twentieth century

The giltwood and gesso torchère with a circular dish top over a stiff leafed column

acting as liaison officer with the allied armies

A Very Large Mid-Century Italian Glazed Earthenware Model of a Hound c.1960 poa-item “Don’t leave Your Cat ToaOrigin: Italian Period: Mid 20thCProvenance: UnknownDate: c. 1960Height: 42. 5Width: 13. 5Depth: 28The Base: 13. 5 x 19. 5The very impressive and oversized vibrant earthenware model of a dog, possibly an Italian greyhound, the wonderfully rendered slender body painted and glazed in amber with a brown linked collar with glass eyes and sitting alert to a rope twisted rectangular cushion base, having an impressed mark to the underside stamped Made in