One of a Pair Montgomery Dogs

Lucy Maud Montgomery refers to the heirloom dogs in several of her books including, Anne of the Island, Anne's House of Dreams  and Anne of Ingleside.  "When I was a little girl, visiting at Grandfather Montgomery's, I think the thing that most enthralled me was a pair of China dogs which always sat on the sitting room mantel piece. . .

"I have always hankered to possess a pair of similar dogs and as those had been purchased in London I hoped when I came over I would find something like them.  Accordingly, I have haunted the antique shops in every place I have been. . .there was an abundance of dogs with black spots and some few dogs with red spots, but nowhere the aristocratic dogs with green spots...The race of dogs with green spots seems to have become extinct."
Photo:  www.lucymaudmontgomerymuseum.com   The dogs with the green spots remain in Grandfather's house.

~ Lucy Maud Montgomery,The Selected Journals, Vol. II:  1910 - 1921. University of Guelph, 1987.  Canadian author (1874 - 1942)