Hand-carved Lounging Hound vintage art glass with crab on one side

with crab on one side and grass on the other I think is an especially brilliant combo

long-nosed denizens of New York’s Upper West Side

he moved to Wisconsin to establish his studio in Johnson Creek and opened his gallery in the fall of 2002

Cubes measure about 1 1/8" square

Hand-carved Lounging Hound vintage art glass with crab on one sideI really love the face as well as the ultra long body of this carved wooden dog, which I understand from the seller was found in Cuba years ago. I'm terrible identifying species but with its long snout I have to think a hound, and looks maybe like a Borzoi to me? A good combination of elegant and just a bit goofy, looking as if luxuriating in a favorite spot, perhaps in front of a fire, and as if casting a smile in one's direction and almost as if