Vintage Mottahedeh Hand-painted Porcelain Dog After 18th Century Chinese Export painted wooden birds with a steel tip

with a steel tip

or also signify sainthood once the doing is done

I found a precise match of this wicker covered flask--same exact wicker

black painted details and the perfect orange painted base

5 1/8" tall x 3 3/4" diameter

Vintage Mottahedeh Hand-painted Porcelain Dog After 18th Century Chinese Export painted wooden birds with a steel tipNot 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