Vintage Mottahedeh Hand-painted Porcelain Dog After 18th Century Chinese Export handblown glass bowl Nice and fat and heavy

Nice and fat and heavy

I haven't been able to date this one exactly

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

but have not found another exactly like it

but wonderful as a rug

Vintage Mottahedeh Hand-painted Porcelain Dog After 18th Century Chinese Export handblown glass bowl Nice and fat and heavyNot 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