Meissen-esque Hand-painted Porcelain Pug striking mask happy together for a long

happy together for a long time already

quite an extraordinary thing

and you can really feel the care invested in its making

but I personally don't mind at all seeing the wear and edges on something like this

which works quite well

Meissen-esque Hand-painted Porcelain Pug striking mask happy together for a longWhen I found this one the other day in Vermont it struck me as quite a fine little thing I don't buy much porcelain but have had a few Herend animals and figures and it feels like that in the hand. A little research reveals that the most renowned maker of porcelain pugs is Meissen (Germany), most of them modeled after a series of pugs by the Meissen factory's chief modeler Johann Joachim Kaendler in 1740 1741. (Interestingly, it appears that one of