Three Dogs on Green Angle, Fabulous Bauhaus Era German Enameled Brass Box (some paint loss to sides) old ruler and I snatched it immediately

and I snatched it immediately

with very satisfying modular stack of four balls in four cages

telling us it had already been well used

for a church designed by the architect Liam McCormick

Three Dogs on Green Angle, Fabulous Bauhaus Era German Enameled Brass Box (some paint loss to sides) old ruler and I snatched it immediatelyThis was, happily, a week for dogs, and a happy surprise indeed to find this Bauhaus era German enamel painted, brass lidded box in New Hampshire with three very excellent black and white puppies peering over a very excellent green wall. I've had a couple of modernist art deco German enameled boxes from this period, but rarer to see a figural one and what better than puppies?! Rendered in a very art deco sort of a way. Some loss to the matte green