Girl with Dog

Germany

Third quarter of the 19th century

  • Titles Girl with Dog (Descriptive)
  • Medium cast iron
  • Dimensions 6 5/8 × 6 9/16 × 3 13/16 in. (16.8 × 16.7 × 9.7 cm)
  • Credit Line Gift of American Cast Iron Pipe Company, 1986.252.3
  • Work Type statuette
  • Classification Sculpture

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Small, delicate, finely modeled porcelain teapot in the form of on one side a dandy with bangs, long red hair, and a moustache, wearing a kind of pink artist's cap, his head tilted slightly right, his large collar bound with a loose pink tie over a smartly tailored green suit, with a large yellow sunflower on his left breast, his left arm bent and resting on his hip, forming the teapot's handle, his right arm slightly outstretched and bent at the elbow, with his right hand limp and pointed downward, forming the spout; on the other side, the teapot is in the form of a woman sporting a similar hairstyle, her hair also red, wearing a large white ruffled collar, a similar cap on her head, and a large white lily on her right breast over her fitted, green smocked gown, in opposition to her companion, it is her right arm that is bent to form the handle and her left arm is outstretched and bent at the elbow to form the spout; the head is removable, forming the cover, with a band of gilding around the foot.
Oval tray of light blue jasper with light blue jasper dip, with raised edge decorated in white relief in a pattern of overlapping acanthus leaves and stiff leaf motifs, the center well with an oval reserve framed by a band of intertwined ribbons, in the center a sunflower, the white relief with some shading.
Chatelaine comprised of an oval, dark blue jasper medallion with white jasper bas relief set in a cut-steel mount with hook on the back, the medallion with the relief scene of "Hercules and Omphale," from this hang three simple cable chains interspersed with cut-steel beads, each attaches to a second oval, dark blue jasper medallion with white jasper bas relief in like cut-steel mount, the medallion with the relief scene of "Ulysses staying the chariot of Victory," from this hang five individual cable chains interspersed with cut-steel beads, the outer two end in tassels and the three in the middle in hooks.