КАС.З. / KAS.Z. / Sculpture Pointer dog lying b / r

N.I. Liberich is a Russian sculptor-realist, academician. He worked in the field of genre and animal sculpture. Favorite models of N.I. Liberich had characters from hunting scenes: hunters, horses, dogs, bears, deer, wild boars, hares. He preferred small sculptures. The Pointing Dog model was made in 1866 for the bronze foundry of K.F. Werfel in St. Petersburg. Pointers - a breed of short-haired pointer dogs bred in England in the 18th century, used for hunting game birds. The figure of a lying pointer without a stand. Collar inscription: “slave. Liberich. ”The Kasli plant has been casting paperweights since 1876.
Model year, 1866, Material, cast iron - "Dutch soot", Author, Liberich N.I., Weight (kg), 5.56, Length (mm), 372, Width (mm), 195, Height (mm) , 175