Time Dances By - Pug Figurines

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PP418 A & B	BLACK BEAUTIES ( Rudolph Kämmer Dresden Style Porcelain Pug Dogs ): I love the Kämmer pugs, which I feel are among the highest quality – as well as the most beautiful – of the German porcelain pugs made today in the Victorian Dresden style. I have handled, and own in my personal collection, the “fawn” version of these pugs, but only recently had the opportunity to purchase a Black Pug Pair. They are really quite striking, outfitted in their burnt orange collars with very large golden bells. The Meissen/Dresden style pugs are characterized by longer muzzles and legs and cropped ears. The Rudolph Kämmer Porcelain Manufactory of Volkstedt, Germany, was founded in 1862. Both pugs bear the Kämmer crowned “K” hallmark with the addition of a small gold painted “7” in the lower right hand corner. They are posed to display. Condition: Excellent. Size: Each pug is 7 3/4" high, 8 1/2" long, 4 3/4" wide and has 7 golden bells 5/8" in diameter.	$950.00 For The Pair
PP284	CHAMPIONSHIP POSE ( Vintage Bone China Occupied Japan Pug Dog ): The Ardalt company in Japan, using the Lenwile trademark, made 5 or 6 different pug models in Bone China during the post-World War II era. That era has come to be known as the “Occupied Japan” era in regard to the jewelry, figurines, china and other collectibles produced for export in Japan. This is the largest and most detailed of the Lenwile pugs. Bone China is produced by adding bone ash to the clay – giving a smooth, white, almost translucent appearance. Most of the pugs are left in their natural white color with only their faces and feet lightly decorated, some with a collar as well. This is one of the few I’ve seen that is fully colored with a lovely fawn coat. He looks like a true champion. He has the model number “H3679”, I think. The last digit is difficult to read. Condition: Excellent. No chips, cracks or repairs. Size: Pug - 4 1/2" high, 6 1/2" long, 2" wide.	SOLD!
PP473 A & B	FAUX MEISSEN PUG PAIR ( Vintage Meissen Style Porcelain Pug Dogs ): Dating back to the 1700’s, Meissen Pugs were so highly prized that they were copied by numerous other porcelain companies. Some contemporary companies, using a hallmark very similar to the famous Meissen crossed swords, tried to pass their pugs off as actual Meissens. Most, however, simply copied the pose and pre-Victorian appearance of the various Meissen pugs. I don’t really know the history of these pugs, but I believe them to be early to mid 20th Century reproductions of the two Meissen pugs copied most often – a male pug and a female pug, each seated on a flower decorated oval platform, with a pup peaking out from between mom’s legs. You can see the cropped ears and Victorian style maroon colored collars. The pugs are not hallmarked. Condition: Excellent. No breaks, cracks or repairs. Both pugs have a light crazing of their glaze, which I think adds to the beauty of antique pugs. It is most noticeable between the front legs of the male. Size: 7” high, 6” long, base 3 ¼” wide for male, 3 ½” wide for female. Pug pup 2” high.	$150.00 For The Pair
PP549	PEARCE MEETS MEISSEN #1 ( Eve Pearce Porcelain Pug Dog ): Always inventive, Eve has come up with a darling version of one of the Meissen Pugs in repose – a Pearce model I have never seen before. I’m sure he will look familiar to you – right down to his blue collar with its golden bells. Eve’s pugs, made from hard pasted porcelain, are not molded, but modeled by hand – so there are no two alike. Yours will always be unique. This pug has felt pads on the base to prevent scratching and bears Eve’s personal hallmark. Condition: Excellent. Posed to display. Size: 4” long, 2 ½” high, 1 ¾” wide. (You can see he makes a nice pair with PP250.)	ON LAYAWAY!
PP550	PEARCE MEETS MEISSEN #2 ( Eve Pearce Porcelain Pug Dog ): Always inventive, Eve has come up with a darling version of one of the Meissen Pugs in repose – a Pearce model I have never seen before. I’m sure he will look familiar to you – right down to his blue collar with its golden bells. Eve’s pugs, made from hard pasted porcelain, are not molded, but modeled by hand – so there are no two alike. Yours will always be unique. This pug has felt pads on the base to prevent scratching and bears Eve’s personal hallmark. Condition: Excellent. Posed to display. Size: 4 ¼” long, 2 ½” high, 2” wide. (You can see he makes a nice pair with PP249.)	ON LAYAWAY!
PP476	PERKY MEISSEN MAIDEN ( Meissen Porcelain Pug Dog ): This Meissen Pup looks eager to go out on the town (or at least for a walk in the neighborhood), dressed in her lovely blue collar and bow. She has wonderful soft eyes with a sweet expression on her face. A tribute to the talent of the Meissen Pug porcelain artists. I love the fact that we can see our chosen breed in Meissen molds made in the 18th & 19th Centuries. I can’t prove it, but the original mold of this pug may have been made by Meissen’s greatest porcelain artist Johann Joachim Kaendler - in the 18^th Century. He was known for putting his pugs in more active poses. Though you couldn’t call this little girl very active, she is in a more interesting pose than the usual standing or seated stationary ones. Meissen pugs are made of the finest hard paste porcelain with flawless molding. My photos can’t really capture the details in the molding and decoration. She is mostly a feint fawn color. This pug carries the famous Meissen crossed swords hallmark on its base, along with the model number "78681", the molder mark "16" and a black painted "2804" indicating the artist. Condition: Excellent. Size: 3" long, 1 1/2" high, 1” deep.	$450.00
PP489	PLAYFUL MEISSEN PUP ( Meissen Porcelain Pug Dog ): This handsome Meissen Pup looks eager to play. It’s wonderful how the Meissen porcelain artists give so much expression to their small pugs. This fellow sports a blue collar edged in gold. I love the fact that we can see our chosen breed in Meissen molds made in the 18th & 19th Centuries. I can’t prove it, but the original mold of this pug may have been made by Meissen’s greatest porcelain artist Johann Joachim Kaendler - in the 18^th Century. He was known for putting his pugs in more active poses. Though you couldn’t call this lounge lizard very active, he is in a more interesting pose than the usual standing or seated stationary ones. Meissen pugs are made of the finest hard paste porcelain and are the top of the line. The molding is flawless and they are decorated by Meissen’s talented porcelain artists. Much of his coat is a light fawn color, not well shown in my photos. This pug carries the famous Meissen crossed swords hallmark on its base, along with the model number "78683", the molder mark "201AK" (I think) and a black painted "550" indicating the artist. Condition: Excellent. Size: 3" long, 1 1/2" high, 1” deep.	$450.00
PP419	BEAUTIFUL PUG BOUQUET ( Dresden Style Porcelain Pug Dog ): This beautifully decorated pug will look spectacular perched in some special niche on one of your bookshelves. I don’t have many of what I call “decorative” pugs, because they don’t go well with the antique and vintage pugs in my display cases. However, we do have several open areas on our bookshelves that we use for the display of “special” pugs, such as this one. The German porcelain company, Rudolph Kämmer of Volkstedt, has become well known for their high quality hard paste porcelain pugs – matching the finest in molding and decoration in the style of the great Meissen & Dresden Pugs. Kämmer is also known for having very large and glorious golden bells on their pug’s collars. This beauty is decorated by the loveliest flowers I have ever seen on a pug. I’ve tried to show a close-up of those on his back, but my photos don’t do them justice. Besides the usual Kämmer hallmark, this pug is also marked “handgemalt” (hand painted). Condition: Excellent. Size: 7 3/4” high, 8 1/2” long, 4 3/4” deep.	$675.00
PP201	VICTORIAN "CAT-FACED" PORCELAIN PUG DOG ( Antique Pug Dog ): Though we find the appearance and coloring of this pug unusual today, this particular model was very popular in the late 19th Century. The gilt used to decorate the bells in Victorian days does not wear nearly as well as other colors. I have never seen one of these that didn’t have the gold worn off the outer surface of the collar bells. Aside from that, the decoration of this nicely molded pug is unusually intact. Posed to display. Condition: Excellent except for wear of gold paint. No chips, cracks or repairs. Size: 4 1/2" high, 3" long.	$110.00
PP427 A & B	VICTORIAN "CAT-FACED" PAIR OF PUGS ( Antique Porcelain Pug Dogs ): Though we find the appearance and coloring of these pugs unusual today, this particular model was very popular in the latter part of the 19th Century. I believe these were made in Germany, though I’m not sure. They have the cropped ears generally found in pugs until Queen Victoria outlawed the practice. Pugs were one of her beloved breeds and she didn’t want them to suffer the pain. Though these pugs were probably not made as a pair, this mirrored duo makes a very nice display. The gilding of the bells on the collar could not take the heat required for glazing. It had to be “cold painted” after cooling and is almost always worn off the bells of antique pugs. Condition: Excellent except for wear of gold paint. No chips, cracks or repairs. Size: Pug on left 4 3/4" high, one on right 4 5/8” high. Both 3" long, 2 1/4” deep.	$250.00 For The Pair
PP358	HANDSOME YOUNG DRESDEN PUG ( Dresden Porcelain Pug Dog ): This is a beautifully molded and decorated fine hard paste Dresden Porcelain Pug. He sports a lovely light blue collar with 5 golden bells and a small bow in back. A fly perched on his head when I photographed his face. Let me stress that the fly is not for sale. To the best of my knowledge, the Carl Thieme Porcelain Manufactory (founded in 1867) was able to save seven of its 19th Century pug molds from destruction during WW II – and I believe they are the only true Dresden pug molds to survive. That quirk of fate occurred because Thieme is located in Potschappel, a Dresden suburb. This pug was made from one of those seven molds. Thieme, like Meissen, started producing a very limited number of these high quality pugs from their antique molds following WW II. You can see he is of the pre-Victorian style of Meissen Pug Dogs. I love to own a pug like this one that represents a link in the linage of pugs from ancient China to the 1600’s in Europe and up to the 2 pugs lying at my feet as I type this. Few other breed owners can experience that feeling. He bears the Thieme Hallmark (pictured) and has “E712T” impressed in his base. I’m sure the red numbers were used by a previous owner. Condition: Excellent. No chips, cracks or repairs. Size: 4 3/4” high, 4 3/4” long.	$425.00
PP255 A & B	STAFFORDSHIRE “BLACK” BEAUTIES ( Antique Staffordshire Porcelain Pug Dogs ): Nineteenth Century Staffordshire Porcelain Pug Dogs in good condition are hard to come by. I’m sure you all see many of the Staffordshire King Charles Spaniels. Clive Mason Pope’s “A-Z of Staffordshire Dogs” pictures only 3 different pugs (pp. 144 & 145), with this gorgeous pair head and shoulders above the others in quality, style and size. (Photo from book included.) He dates them circa 1880. Small potteries in the English county of Staffordshire started making large numbers of King Charles Spaniels, Queen Victoria’s favorite, in the 1830’s. Other breeds soon followed. They were known as “comforters”, meant for the mantels of all Englishmen – high & low. Unlike most Staffordshire dogs, these pugs are beautifully molded with great detail. They sport golden collars and gold highlights in the grass between their legs. Glass eyes were first used in Staffordshire dogs in the 1860’s and they quickly became the most highly sought after. These are the only Staffordshire Pugs with glass eyes. This lovely pair is slightly different from the others I have seen. They are easily the closest to “black” pugs – almost never seen among antique pug figurines. Condition: Excellent. I have shown a close-up of the face of the “male” pug on the right for you to see a small defect in the glaze of the left inner brow. I only found it by feel, not sight. Even when examined with a “black” light it barely shows up. There are no chips, cracks or repairs. The round hole seen in the back of the “female” pug is a firing hole. Some loss of gold from collars & grass. Size: Pug on right 11 ¼” high, on left 11” high. Both 9 ½” long, 4 ½” deep.	$1400.00
PP512	CIGAR ANYONE? ( Vintage Faux Antique Pug Dog Humidor ): At first glance one could easily take this handsome fellow, with his nice pattern of crazing and golden collar and bow, for a true antique pug humidor. But, in fact, he is a very nicely made 20th Century reproduction of a popular 19th Century model. He is a warm golden tan color fading into white in front. His face is nicely decorated in an antique style. Just for fun I have photographed him beside an antique Majolica Pug Humidor from my personal collection. You can easily see the resemblance. Condition: Excellent. No cracks, chips or repairs. Size: 8” high, 7” long, 5” wide.	$175.00
PP469	IT’S FOR REAL! ( Victorian Staffordshire Pug Dog ): If you peruse the Staffordshire Figurines found for sale in most antique shops, shows and malls – not to mention online – you will generally find dozens of King Charles Spaniels, but very rarely a Staffordshire Pug. Clive Mason Pope in his book “A-Z of Staffordshire Dogs” pictures only 3 models of Antique Staffordshire Pugs – and this is one of them. (Figure 1, Page 144. See photos.) I didn’t learn to appreciate Staffordshire Pugs until we opened “Time Dances By” in 2000 and I started to research them. My lack of appreciation was because of all the King Charles Spaniels one sees due to the fame of Queen Victoria’s “Dash” – and because of the relatively crude look compared to that of German Porcelain Pugs. I learned they were made in small shops in Staffordshire, starting in the late 1800’s and often decorated by children. They weren’t made for the export market – like the German pugs – but made for the mantles of ordinary Englishmen and often called “comforters”. Thanks to Queen Victoria – and by extension Staffordshire – dogs became part of British Victorian families. They only had to earn their keep by giving love, comfort and joy – just as our pugs today. After learning this I now have a warm feeling for these pugs. Condition: Excellent. Some black paint rubbed off facial decoration, part of gold missing from bell on collar and mild crazing of glaze. Size: 5 1/2” high, 5 1/2” long, 2 1/2” deep.	$375.00
PP420	LOVE THAT MEISSEN PUG ( Meissen Porcelain Pug Dog ): Don’t you love the wonderful expression and soft brown eyes of this wonderful Meissen Pug? He brings pure pleasure to the eye. Meissen has made the finest hard paste porcelain figurines for close to 300 years. Though this pug was “ thrown” (molded) sometime since 1974 when Meissen started the 5 digit model system, the original mold was made in the 18^th or 19^th Century – having been preserved by Meissen artisans even through the worst of the WWII bombing of nearby Dresden. These pugs do have slightly longer muzzles and legs than our modern pugs, but it is remarkable how similar they are. Looking at my collection of Meissen pugs and hugging my own pugs makes me feel close to history. There are two special things about this pug – he is large enough to stand out nicely in your display case and he has the most delicate blue bow you can imagine. I have attempted to show it in my photos. It looks like it’s made of satin rather than porcelain. Impressed in the base is the model number “78746”, a “77 AE”, probably the molder mark and a red “2814” probably indicating the artisan who decorated him. Condition: Excellent. Size: 5 1/2” high, 5 1/2” long, 3” deep.	SOLD!
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