Large Antique Austrian Gilded Bronze Desk Set Sculpture Pug Dogs & Puppies, Circa 1910 Drawings & Prints the urns having circular socle

the urns having circular socle bases and raised on square ormolu plinths

dated 1851

the base of each door carved with a panel containing a flowering urn

He was related to Queen Elizabeth II sister

with four more retes to each corner

Large Antique Austrian Gilded Bronze Desk Set Sculpture Pug Dogs & Puppies, Circa 1910 Drawings & Prints the urns having circular socleSOLD A large and rare antique Austrian gilded bronze desk set sculpture, modeled as a Pug dogs with her two puppies, circa 1910. To the center is a mother pug flanked by two pug pups, they sit before an empty handled feeding bowl. The heads are hinged and each contains a gilded metal liner, the mother dogs liner for pens the two pups for ink and sand. The bronze is very finely cast by the 'lost wax' method and gilded throughout, condition is