PACKIKS Faience and Terracotta Factory by Alexander Levitsky, Sitting Latin Dog

fine faience, underglaze and glaze ceramic paints (dog claws, eyes), lead-borax glaze; small technological blemishes of glaze on base;
Height 15 cm, width approx. 21 cm, base 21.2 x 15.4 cm (oval);
Signed in gray-blue print: in double oval letter P and Rogala coat of arms surmounted by slatted cartouche with inscription: PACYKÓW; impressions: Made in.../578/ 77 5/ 5/1 - faintly legible.
Poland, Pacyków k/Stanisławow, Aleksander Rogala-Lewicki's Faience Factory, interwar period.
Dog in brown patches, sitting on an oval low base, supported on widely spaced front paws, with lowered head and long, floppy ears (cf. analogous figurine in the exhibition catalog "Faience from Pacykow", Regional Museum in Kozienice, 2001, cat.51 and il., p.59).