Vintage Mottahedeh Hand-painted Porcelain Dog After 18th Century Chinese Export handblown glass bowl I also love its simultaneous

I also love its simultaneous gracefulness  and awkwardness--a body built for gliding through the water

There is one small chip on the top edge of the woman book end

filled with humorous quotations

The wood is a beautiful warm brown and all the better for the scrapes and scratches--but no splits--all over

but have not found another exactly like it

Vintage Mottahedeh Hand-painted Porcelain Dog After 18th Century Chinese Export handblown glass bowl I also love its simultaneousNot at all my usual thing, but I've kind of fallen in love with this guy, a fine Mottahedeh hand painted porcelain reproduction of an 18th century Chinese porcelain hound, which featured in the collection of Mottahedeh china company founders Mildred and Rafi Mottahedeh. (Quite the interesting couple, much more about them here.) The dog, which I must say has quite an animated, rather life like presence, I believe dates to the 1970s or so, is signed