Large Antique Austrian Gilded Bronze Desk Set Sculpture Pug Dogs & Puppies, Circa 1910 Sold An Industrial draft test made

An Industrial draft test made of molded-pressed glass

Condition is very good

He ran once as a two-year-old at the Doncaster's Champagne Stakes

Both the lid and base having engraved cartouches inlaid with silver calligraphic inscriptions

circa 1820

Large Antique Austrian Gilded Bronze Desk Set Sculpture Pug Dogs & Puppies, Circa 1910 Sold An Industrial draft test madeSOLD A large and rare antique Austrian gilded bronze desk set sculpture, modeled as a Pug dogs with her two puppies, circa 1910. To the center is a mother pug flanked by two pug pups, they sit before an empty handled feeding bowl. The heads are hinged and each contains a gilded metal liner, the mother dogs liner for pens the two pups for ink and sand. The bronze is very finely cast by the 'lost wax' method and gilded throughout, condition is