Rare bronze figure of a dog wearing a collar with bells and scratching its ear.

Rare bronze figure of a dog wearing a collar with bells and scratching its ear.
Germany, 16th century.
H.: 6 cm.
Our dog is similar to the model created by the Master of the Amserdam Cabinet: Old bulldog scratching, dry point made around 1485 or those of Georges Schweiger after an engraving of the so-called "Hausbuchmeister" from the Renaissance period of Dürer around 1600. Automatically translated by DeepL. To see the original version, click here.