Sweet Pair of Doggy Bookends porcelain tiger with some paint loss as

with some paint loss as pictured

who I think quite charmed the artist as he sketched them nearly 200 years ago

as if a study for a medal to be cast in bronze

dyed dark green

with many good years of hand reading left in it for sure

Sweet Pair of Doggy Bookends porcelain tiger with some paint loss asI just like the dog faces carved into these wooden bookends, which I think someone took great pains to try to get right, though both are slightly off center and the lines seem a bit more wavering than confident. Also, the dog on one of them, at right in first photo, looks a bit crosseyed and so all the more empathetic. 4 3 4 x 4 t x 3 d (3 4 thick) each. Good condition, varnished.