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Vintage Gold Lion Foo Dog Brooch Pin -
Shishi Menuki - Alva Museum Replicas

 

Authorized, copyrighted reproduction  in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, by Alva Museum Replicas, New York.

Alva Studios, operated by Alfred Wolkenberg. Alfred was born in Vienna in 1911 and immigrated to the US in 1939. In 1948 he founded Alva Studios of Long Island City, NY. He had many artists and designers who were commissioned to produce reproductions of priceless ancient jewelry and sculpture. The pieces were marked Alva Museum Replicas and sold at famous museums such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art ( MMA ), Smithsonian Institute ( SI ), The Louvre, The Art Institute of Chicago, etc...