A weighty antique Victorian-era bronze dish from Vienna, depicting a cat and a dog playing skipping games with two mice. The dog is at one end and the cat at the other, holding a wire skipping rope between them. Two mice join in with the game on the edges of the dish, preparing to skip!

The dish has lovely 'claw' set feet that actually appear to be rabbits' feet. Inside the dish is a banner design.

Signed on reverse 'F. Schon thaler in Wein'

measures - 9 x 4" and just under 3.5" high