Posted 3 years ago
mcheconi
(42 items)
Happy New Year folks! Here's the first find of 2022. I was wondering if there's someone out there who could know more about this guy. It seems to be a folk art version of those 19th century's Staffordshire dogs. It appears to be glazed in some sort of salt, as there are some grains of it still adhered to the surface.
The piece is made of two halves (front and back), probably pressed to a mold then put togheter. The seam is visible. The paint seems to be a yellow slip background and copper green spots applied with a sponge or wet brush. The dog is 20 cm high.
It was found in the South of Brazil, a region that received immigrants mostly from Germany and Italy and from other European countries in smaller numbers. Any ideas on the age or origin?
Edited on January 10th 2022: Seller said he bought this bank along with other pieces from an estate sell at the city of Rio Grande, RS, from a German lady. According to him, almost all of what was being sold was German and the lady told him the dog bank was brought from Germany by her family.
Edited on March 9th 2024: I found an image, a fragment of 18th century Dutch tile that portrays a dog with a similar style (picture 4).
https://museumrotterdam.nl/collectie/item/5857-A
Happy New Year:)
What can I say, George Washington's Dog ?? These do look oddly familiar as Wedgewood. I wonder if in my Miller's books. Will check, very oddly curious so I would expect it in your esteemed collection.
Happy New Year mcheconi ! Hope all is well by you . I
Many thanks to
blunderbuss2, hope you are doing fine BB!
Manikin, thanks Ingrid for your love and comment. I am doing fine, some heath issues in the family that took me away from CW and my collections. But hopefully things will improve til May or June 2022.
Emily2562, thanks!
Blammoammo, thank you!
Treym thanks Trey, have a wonderful 2022!
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Vynil33rpm, a grean 2022 for you. Keep your great posts coming.
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vetraio50, hope you are doing wonderful, happy New Year!
Hey Phil, thank you for your amusing comment, hope you have a fine 2022. Yes, he is odd looking and I hope he is an antique, because it was very cheap. Please let me know if you eventually find something similar in your books. It seems really old and very unusual. The age shows in the crackled glaze and in the color of the chipped money slot and the worn out glaze in some spots. It isn't a theme found in our local pottery tradition and not even in the Brazilian antiques market and I am pretty sure it came from Europe with an immigrant family. Seller thinks it is German, but I wasn't able to find anything like it when searching for German stoneware or redware spaniel dog banks or figurines. Oddly enough, it resembles more the 19th century American redware spaniel banks made by Wagner Pottery in PA than the European spaniel banks I found online. I call him George now. ;)
He's so cute