Circa 1920s, crouching animal has been carved with natural graining creating a striped effect, inset green glass eyes, tinted highlights to face and claws, drilled at the electrical wire. Retains old "Made in Italy" paper label to underside.
10 x 18 in.
Estate of the late Augustus Burns Elkins, Durham, NC
Chip to one fang and to the nose; several scratches between shoulder blades.
