Professor Otto Poertzel (German, 1876-1963)
'The Aristocrats': An Art Deco Cold-Painted and Carved Ivory Figural Group, circa 1925
modelled as young woman with plaited hair, wearing a long medievalist dress, and walking two borzoi; the figure raised on a green onyx plinth
40cm high, signed 'PROF.POERTZEL' in the cast