PORZELLANFABRIK L. HUTSCHENREUTHER, Selb - Kunstabteilung, Girl with a Greyhound

porcelain, gilt;
gilding slightly rubbed;
height 34.5 cm, base 16.2 x 12 cm (oval);
Signed in green print: Hutschenreuther/ Selb / in oval a lion walking left, below letters: .L.H.S.? below: Germany/Kunstabteilung; on the back on top of the base engraved: C. WERNER.
Germany, Selb (Bavaria), Lorenz Hutschereuther porcelain factory, Art Department; model: Carl WERNER (1895-1980); 1950s.
On a flat, oval base, a barefoot, naked girl standing in front of a greyhound, turns her head toward it and extends her right hand with the intention of stroking it; the dog lifts its head slightly toward the girl Model by Carl Werner, who collaborated with Hutschenreuther from ca. 1922,
from 1922 to 1960 technical head of the factory's Art Department.