BRONZE SEATED DOG

BRONZE SEATED DOG

Slender and graceful with short neck, rather large pointed head with big eyes, ears lay flat back, slender tail curls up to the dog’s right, raising its left front leg as if begging for attention; set on rectangular base. Dark green patina, paw of frontleg lacking.

Ex priv. coll. M.v.S., Netherlands, formerly Mariaud de Serres, Paris 1980s.
H. 5 cm. Mounted on yellow marble stand. ALR 2017

1st cent. AD

Lit. A.P. Kozloff, Animals in Ancien Art, From the Mildenberg Collection, Cleveland 1981, p. 194-5, nr. 182 (standing); M. Comstock/C. Vermeule, Greek, Etruscan and Roman Bronzes, Boston 1971, nr. 217 var.