Hand-carved Lounging Hound carved fruit pit multiplication

multiplication

with nicely detailed face and all over spots

Kagel Keramische Werkstätten (1902-1988)

with concentric rings of orange

I believe it was likely a burning tool that was used to render this wide eyed owl on fungus conk--making it feel more as if this owl is emerging from within than imposed on top

Hand-carved Lounging Hound carved fruit pit multiplicationI really love the face as well as the ultra long body of this carved wooden dog, which I understand from the seller was found in Cuba years ago. I'm terrible identifying species but with its long snout I have to think a hound, and looks maybe like a Borzoi to me? A good combination of elegant and just a bit goofy, looking as if luxuriating in a favorite spot, perhaps in front of a fire, and as if casting a smile in one's direction and almost as if