Arthur Tilo Alt, Boy in Bed Reading, Childhood Drawing, Berlin, WW2 Era black and white dog I love the relationship between

I love the relationship between the curvaceous form of the bowl and the almost wave-like black pattern that runs horizontally across its surface

Some scattered staining and wear

The basic story

and then lovely button closures on all sides

I have no idea the story behind this carving

Arthur Tilo Alt, Boy in Bed Reading, Childhood Drawing, Berlin, WW2 Era black and white dog I love the relationship betweenThis is among a several drawings I purchased together by Dr. Arthur Tilo Alt (1931 2019) a scholar and professor of German in Yiddish language and literature in the Judaic studies program at Duke University which came from his estate in Younsgsville, NC. Born in Java, Indonesia, Alt's family returned to their native Germany in 1933, where Tilo grew up in West Berlin, ultimately moving to the U. S. in 1956 to study at the University of Texas. While I