"Nipper" the RCA Dog

Large vintage Brutalist steel sculpture of fishes fashioned from old pliers and a sheet metal snip. In the manner of Marcello Fantoni. The steel has been drizzled with solder to give...

Nice old or antique Peruvian folk pottery Torito de Pucara bull figure. Lots of character, dressed for ceremony, good contrasts, and licking his nose. 8'" ...

This large advertising store display 'Nipper' dog was made by the Old King Cole Company of Ohio, and dates to approximately 1920 and done in a period Art Deco style. The sculpture is done entirely of a molded paper mache which has been hand painted with a white ground, and black accents with some gold finish on the collar. This RCA advertising store display has been restored at some time, as evidenced by the re-painting of the entire sculpture. There is some overall wear as presented in the photos and consistent with age and use,. This figural advertising 'Nipper' dog is clearly signed with a red paper label for the 'Old King Cole Company' inside the hind quarter with the crown logo. These store display Nipper dogs were done for several years for RCA, and the first ones were done in paper mache, and later done in fiberglass and the last renditions done in a molded plastic. This advertising sculpture...

THE DESERTED CITY - THE DOG “Nodoorsopened,nobodyanswered,nosoundofsteps,nodogsbarking,nohorsesneighing,nothingbrokethattaciturnhallucination.” The Deserted City is a series of scu...