Meet a pottery poodle made for the mantel.
Mottled ceramic poodles were among the decorative wares produced in nineteenth-century America. This example was intended for a mantel, where such animals could appear as a facing pair.
Source: Art Institute of Chicago
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Digital image courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago. Amelia Blanxius Collection, gift of Emma B. Hodge and Jene E. Bell; public CC0 mirror at Artheon Museum.
Creator: Attributed to United States Pottery Company American, 1847–58 Bennington, Vermont
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