Time Dances By - Pug Figurines

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PB005	PUG PUGILISTS ( Vienna Bronze Boxing Pug Dogs ): Pugs are generally playful and peace loving dogs, but when only one edible item is put out in front of two ravenous (aren’t they always) pugs, one can see the PUGnacious side of their personalities. Here we have rarely held “Worldchampionship Pug Boxing” match – Black Pug vs. Brown Pug. And they do look fierce! Each wears large colorful boxing gloves. These PUGilists are refereed by a skinny frog that better not get between these two heavyweight combatants. The elevated boxing ring is enclosed by realistic looking twisted roping and there is a large “WB” in the center of the mat which I assume stands for “Worldchampionship Boxing”. This piece bears a hallmark on the base. It looks like “Petrli, Wein”, but my Vienna Bronze consultant tells me it is actually “Petri, Wein” – a company that no longer exists, but was taken over by the Fritz Bermann Company of Vienna. I have been collecting Vienna Bronze Pugs, among other pug figurines, for many years and this is the only one of this model I have seen. Don’t miss this chance to add it to your collection. Condition: Excellent. Not even any loss of paint. It has been sitting undisturbed in one of my display cabinets for several years. Size: 2 1/4" high, 4” wide, 4” deep. Pugs are 1 3/8” high.	SOLD!
PP531	WANT A MATCH, MISTER? ( Antique Bisque Porcelain Pug Dog Match Holder ): I have seen and sold Pug Match Holders similar to this, but they have been white pugs who are fully glazed with a pink or blue ribbon and bow. This pug is bisque (a single fired porcelain giving a soft, slightly textured finish) with warm brown coloring and a humorous look on his face with his tongue sticking out and both eyes looking upward. There are remnants of gold strips on his ribbon and bow. In Victorian days the gold was “cold painted” after the piece cooled and then easily rubbed off – thus the partially missing gold on the collars and bells of most antique pugs. You can see the back of the basket acts as the match striker. He is unmarked, but has a gold “65” painted on the bottom. He most likely is a German made English “Fairing Piece” – given out as prizes at English country fairs. Condition: Excellent. No chips or repairs. There are some small crevices in the bottom of the basket, but they are not full thickness. The basket holds water. He does have some of the gold rubbed off of his ribbons and bow. Size: 3 1/4" high, 3 1/2" long, 1 7/8” wide.	$195.00
JJ210	FEBRUARY RESCUE PUGS ( Hand Sculpted Fimo Clay Pug Dog Clip Earrings ): This mirror image pair of Pug Clip Earrings comes to you courtesy of JJay’s personal Jewelry Box. (Don’t you love their “dairy whip” tails?) She says she has to find them a new home because they are always stealing and chewing her tennis shoes – as you can see. I told her I was sure I could find them a good new home from among my pug collectors. I think you will find the adoption fee very reasonable. Condition: Excellent. Size: 1 3/4" long, 1” wide, 5/8” deep.	ON HOLD!
PP520	ROYAL MEISSEN FLEA BAIT ( Vintage Meissen Porcelain Pug Dog ): Even the Royalty of Meissen Pugdom has to occasionally scratch an itch. This has always been one of my favorites among all of the Meissen Pugs. Most are in static poses, but this one definitely was caught in action. Though I can’t prove it, I suspect this pug was originally molded by Johann Joachim Kaendler in the 18th Century. He was Meissen’s most famous of many great artists and was known for the sense of action he gave to his animals. Meissen pugs are made from the original 18th & 19th Century molds which were hidden by loyal Meissen workers during WWII. They continue to be made to this day of the finest hard past porcelain by some of the world’s best porcelain artists – thus maintaining their quality and their value. Adding to this pug’s beauty and value are the 5 golden bells on her blue collar with its golden buckle. The collar is a bit fancier than most with its golden edging. On her base is Meissen’s famous crossed swords hallmark, along with the model number “78772” & “732Z” – most likely the molder & the date. My Meissen research book tells me the “Z” indicates this pug was “thrown” in 1978. Don’t’ miss your chance to add this beauty to your collection. Condition: Excellent. No chips, cracks or repairs. Size: 2 3/8” high, 2 3/4” long, 2” deep.	$625.00
PP088	KÄMMER PRINCESS ( Kämmer Porcelain Pug Dog ): This beautiful female Dresden Porcelain Pug Dog was made by the Rudolph Kämmer Porcelain Factory of the Thuringia region of Germany. Famous for its porcelain since 1862, Kämmer - along with Meissen and Thieme - are the three German porcelain factories making the highest quality hard paste porcelain pugs, hand painted by the finest porcelain artists and using the 18th century style pugs - longer legs and muzzle, white with fawn or grey spots and cropped ears. My favorite Kämmer Pug features are the large gold bells on the burnt orange collars and the soft brown eyes - just like those of my two pug girls. The Kämmer pugs are less expensive than similar sized Meissen & Thieme Pugs because they are made from post WWII molds, as opposed to the antique molds the others have retained. This lovely lady makes a lovely mate to PP397 listed below. Condition: Excellent. No chips, cracks or repairs. Posed to display. Size: 8" high, 8 1/4" long, 4 3/4" deep.	$475.00
PP397	KÄMMER PRINCE ( Kämmer Porcelain Pug Dog ): This handsome fellow is wearing the greatest golden bells on his burnt orange collar of any of the wonderful hard paste Porcelain Dresden Pug Dogs. And you can tell how proud he is! This beautifully molded and beautifully hand painted pug is made by the Rudolph Kämmer Manufactory of Volkstedt, Germany, founded in 1862. Along with Meissen and Thieme, they make the finest pre-Victorian style pugs - longer legs and muzzle, white with fawn or grey spots and cropped ears. And I love his large soft brown eyes! Queen Victoria, a lover and owner of pugs, along with her King Charles spaniels, outlawed the cropping of pug’s ears as a cruel practice – leading to our modern pugs. This handsome lad makes a lovely mate to PP088 listed above. Condition: Excellent. No chips, cracks or repairs. Posed to display. Size: 7 3/4" high, 8 1/2" long, 4 3/4" deep.	$475.00
PP588	HAVIN’ A BALL! ( Eve Pearce Porcelain Pug Dog ): I think this young pug is trying out for the circus. Not just a clown, but a talented pug clown. As usual, Eve has perfectly captured the essence of our favorite companion – just a little caricatured. Pearce’s pugs are made from hard paste porcelain, not from molds, but modeled by hand – so there are no two alike. Yours will always be unique. You can see Eve’s hallmark on the base. There are felt pads on the bottom to prevent scratching. Condition: Excellent. Size: 5 1/2” long, 2 3/4" high, 2 7/8” wide.	$250.00
PP093	DRESDEN DELIGHT ( Carl Thieme Dresden Porcelain Pug Dog ): This fabulous Dresden Female Pug is near the top of the list for any serious pug collector. She was made by the Carl Thieme Porcelain Manufactory of Potschappel, Germany, a suburb of Dresden. These pugs are made from still existing 19th Century molds using the finest hard paste porcelain and beautifully hand decorated. My photos can’t do justice to this beauty, but study the details of the molding. You can see the muscles and tendons of her legs. Though impossible to show in my photos - besides the painted hair, she has fine molded hair all over her body and tail. Thieme Pugs match the Meissen pugs in quality. This style of Thieme comes in two sizes. This is the larger and more detailed. Besides the Thieme hallmark I have pictured, she has “L1454K” impressed in the base and “76” painted in the glaze. Probably the model and artist’s mark. She goes very nicely with the male Thieme Pug (PB542) listed below. Condition: Excellent. No chips, cracks, scratches or repairs. Posed to display. Size: 8 1/2" high, 8 1/2" long, 5 1/2” deep.	$1050.00
PP542	DELIGHTFUL DRESDEN ( Carl Thieme Dresden Porcelain Pug Dog ): This handsome Dresden Male Pug has to be on the list for any serious pug collector. He was made by the Carl Thieme Porcelain Manufactory of Potschappel, Germany, a suburb of Dresden. These pugs are made from still existing 19th Century molds using the finest hard paste porcelain and beautifully hand decorated. My photos can’t do justice to this beauty, but study the details of the molding. You can see the muscles and tendons of his legs. Though impossible to show in my photos – besides the painted hair, he has fine molded hair all over his body and tail. The pupils of his eyes are not just painted, but also in the mold. The hair of his brows is molded as well as painted. This style of Thieme Pugs comes in males & females of two sizes. This is the larger and more detailed pug. Besides the Thieme hallmark I have pictured, he has “1454” impressed in the base and “76” painted on the base. He goes very nicely with the female Thieme Pug (PB093) listed above. Condition: Excellent. No chips, cracks, scratches or repairs. There is a small black spot in the glaze of the right haunch (see photos). Size: 8 1/4” high, 8 1/2” long, 5 1/2” deep.	$1050.00
PP509	WHITE GOLD ( Vintage Nymphenburg Antique-Style Porcelain Pug Dog ): When fine hard paste porcelain was first developed in Europe in the 1700’s it was sometimes called “White Gold” because it was literally worth it weight in gold. This gorgeous “Blanc de Chine” male pug, though made in the 20th Century, was crafted in the age old painstaking method from the original antique molds. I have a Nymphenburg Catalogue which details how they put together a dog such as this with such slender, delicate legs. Multiple molds are used. The Nymphenburg Porcelain Manufactory, located in the Nymphenburg Palace in Munich, has been creating their porcelain masterpieces since the mid-eighteenth century. In my 35 years of pug collecting I can count on one hand the number of Nymphenburg Pugs I have seen for sale. (This one came from a private collection.) My catalogue, from 10 years ago, has 3 pugs in it – one antique & two modern. The prices are unbelievable! This pug is an excellent example of how our modern pugs have changed. Note the long delicate legs, the smaller head, the extended muzzle and the cropped ears. Interestingly our 18 month old pug, Jade, (see photos) is a throwback with these same features. (We haven’t cropped her ears yet, but sometimes threaten her with it.) We prefer to think she is just trying to fit in with our antique pug collection, rather than having a whippet as a father! In recognition of its noble pedigree this figurine carries the impressed Nymphenburg hallmark of the Royal Bavarian Coat of Arms (pictured upside down). Also on the bottom are the impressed numbers “471” & “7”. Condition: Excellent. No chips, cracks or repairs. Size: 4 1/2" high, 5” long, pug 2 1/2" deep.	$500.00
PP595	PARTY TIME! ( Eve Pearce Porcelain Pug Dogs ): We all know pugs aren’t just our pets – they are our kids! So we can fully appreciate and understand throwing a birthday party for this proud mommy pug and her excited little girl. They are beautifully placed on a light green base containing baby blue flowers and tufts of green grass, as well as the decorated cake and long, lovely striped ribbon & bow – very delicate. (Coloring of base is not accurate in my photos. It is really a pale green.) I love it that Eve’s pugs are all slight caricatures and show a bit of humor – each one a small masterpiece. She has been producing these gems for over 25 years, but collectors buy and hold them – so they are difficult to come by. Her skill is obvious. She molds them by hand from hard paste porcelain and hand paints them, so each is unique. This piece contains her hallmark and the bottom is covered with felt to prevent scratching. Condition: Excellent. Size: 3 3/4” high, 7” wide, 5 3/4” deep. Sitting momma pug 3” high, 3 1/2" long. Lying young pug 2 1/4" high, 2 3/4" long.	$390.00
PP124	ANTIQUE "CAT FACE" PUG BOTTLE ( Antique Porcelain Pug Dog Container ): This Victorian German Porcelain Pug Dog Figurine not only looks good, he is very talented. He can turn his head all the way around, so you can pose him in any position. In fact his head comes off making him a pug bottle or container. He is nicely molded and hand painted with a lovely blue collar. "Cat Faced" pugs are not that unusual, but this is the only one I have seen that is a container. He would make a nice addition to your collection if you are particularly interested in unusual Antique Pugs. Condition: Very Good. He has feint crazing of his glaze and I believe he has a small, nicely done, area of repair on the right side of his neck where the head comes off. The brown spot on the back of his head is in his glaze. Size: 5 1/4" high, 4 1/4" long, 2 1/2" wide.	$90.00
PP519	I LOVE YOU, MOM! ( Vintage Meissen Porcelain Pug Dog ): Judging from the happy look on the face of this suckling puppy, he really loves his mom – and I do to. This lovely pug pair – first molded in the 18th or 19th Century – could become one of the prize pugs of your collection. To the best of my knowledge, this model is no longer made by Meissen - making it particularly valuable. I could not order it either from my Meissen source or directly from Meissen. She is relatively large for a Meissen Pug, is seated on a grassy platform along with her pup and has beautiful large soulful eyes in her lovely face. The decoration of the hair on her face is unusually fine compared to the other large Meissen Pugs I have handled. I am also very fond of the puppy’s darling curled tail tucked snuggly under mom. She has a lovely baby blue collar lined in dark blue. I was unable to capture some of the special details in my photos – she has a finely molded coat of hair all over her body. The base has molded grass covering it with a large elevated royal purple flower with 3 leaves between her front feet. Meissen Pugs are made of the finest German hard paste porcelain and decorated by some of Europe’s finest porcelain artists. It does not have the 5 digit model numbers started in 1980, but has an inverted “V” after the molder’s number – “107^”. According to my Meissen book, this means it was probably “thrown” in 1965, though made from an antique mold. Also on the base are the model number “7254” (no longer used) and, of course, the famous Meissen Crossed Swords Hallmark. Condition: Excellent. No chips, cracks or repairs. Size: Pug 5 1/2” high, 5 1/2” long. Base 5” long, 3” wide, 5/8” high. Total height 6 1/8”	$1800.00
PP552	FOXY FRAULEIN ( Antique Conta & Boehme Porcelain Pug Dog ): This medium sized Conta & Boehme female pug is special in that she bears the C & B hallmark – an arm holding a short sword within a shield. These Victorian Pugs were made by the German Porcelain Company – Conta & Boehme – in the latter part of the 1800’s. Because, unlike the finer Meissen & Dresden Pugs – these pugs were made for common folk, they were not initially expensive, weren’t all perfect in their molding and frequently did not bear the C & B hallmark. One might compare them to the Staffordshire dogs of England. This young lady is perfect in her molding, with none of the common firing cracks, but somewhere along the way she chipped her right front pinky toe. It doesn’t show, since it is in the back. Otherwise she is a lovely specimen with her blue trimmed collar bearing 5 bells and lovely bow in back. Almost all antique pugs have the gold rubbed off of their bells. In fact if such bells are all still gold it probably isn’t an antique or they were repainted. The gold paint used then had to be put on after the pug had cooled off. If the gold was painted on before the final firing it turned black. Thus the “cold painted” gold was quite easily rubbed off. Condition: Very good. She has the usual loss of gold from her bells and some fine superficial scratches of her back & head. These don’t lower her value, but the chip of the 5th toe of her right front foot (see photos) does and is reflected in her price. Size: 4” high, 4 ½” long, 2 inches wide.	$290.00
PB018	DOES IT BITE? ( Vintage Christine Baldwin Bronze Pug Dog ): This charming, beautifully sculpted bronze pug is eyeing that turtle with a mixture of curiosity and suspicion. The talented California sculptor, Christine Baldwin, captured this pug’s body language and the look on his face to perfection in this 1982 bronze. The pug - and the turtle - are posed on a lovely marble base covered by felt on the bottom. Baldwin is famous for her bronze dog sculptures – of all breeds. She executes them using the lost wax process. This beauty is quite heavy and substantial, so it will be stable and look great on your end table or coffee table. Your cat can’t knock it over. Condition: Excellent. Size: The pug is 4” tall, 3 1/4” long. The bronze base is 4 1/2” long, 2 3/4” wide, 3/8” high. (The turtle is 1” long.) The marble base is 5 3/4” long, 4” wide, 7/8” high. The total height is 5 1/4”..	$350.00
PP395	LOVELY DRESDEN PUG MOM & PUP ( Carl Thieme Dresden Porcelain Pug Dog ): This is a loving and lovely Dresden Pug Mother & Suckling Pup. The term "Dresden China" is very loosely used. These pugs are truly Dresden Pugs made by the Carl Thieme Porcelain Factory of Potschappel, a suburb of Dresden, Germany. Thieme has been producing top quality porcelain pieces since 1867. Though newly “thrown”, the original mold for these pugs was made in the late 19th Century. Dresden Pugs have this typical pose along with the cropped ears, long legs and muzzles and coloring of the early pugs brought from China. Thieme Dresden Pugs rival Meissen Pugs in their quality – both in molding and decoration. The quality of my photos are unable to show many of the wonderful details – the muscles and tendons of the legs, the large lustrous gray irises and a fine coat of hair in the glaze all over the body (you can see a hint of this in the close up of the hallmark). This pug is top of the line! If you can buy only one Dresden, this duo is perfection. It carries the Thieme hallmark with the word “Dresden” below it, along with an impressed “U6422T”. The small painted “40” generally indicates the artist who decorated the pug. Condition: Excellent. No chips, cracks or repairs. Size: 9 1/2” tall, 10” long, 7” wide.	$1250.00
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