Arthur Tilo Alt, Boy in Bed Reading, Childhood Drawing, Berlin, WW2 Era black and white dog and what appears to be

and what appears to be a lithographed eye still on one side

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

thick walled

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 and what appears to beThis 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