Description
A small linden wood group of a ‘Black Forest’ mountain dog and her puppies finely carved with the puppies clambering over their recumbent mother, painted with naturalistic markings in black and tan, Swiss, c1910.
Footnote: For a very similar but larger example by Heinrich Mäder in 1908, see Arenski, Daniels and Daniels, ‘Swiss Carvings, The Art of the Black Forest, 1820-1940.’ P94 Plate 140.