Modelled and seated with head turned and the mouth open, with a yellow collar suspending a gilt bell around its neck.
For a pair of puppies of this model, with a brown coat, see Michael Cohen and William Motley, Mandarin and Menagerie: Chinese and Japanese Export Ceramic Figures, Reigate, 2008, p. 173, 11.12 (sold at Christie’s, 16 septembre 2015, lot 647).