Meissen-esque Hand-painted Porcelain Pug antique cut paper doll and the bulb opening inside

and the bulb opening inside the white half

Warren Harding

I love things like this

The crayons are still in great usable condition

Meissen-esque Hand-painted Porcelain Pug antique cut paper doll and the bulb opening insideWhen I found this one the other day in Vermont it struck me as quite a fine little thing I don't buy much porcelain but have had a few Herend animals and figures and it feels like that in the hand. A little research reveals that the most renowned maker of porcelain pugs is Meissen (Germany), most of them modeled after a series of pugs by the Meissen factory's chief modeler Johann Joachim Kaendler in 1740 1741. (Interestingly, it appears that one of