These kind of decorative bottles were produced a lot in Germany and Austria. This one is a wonderful homage to the nameless German shepherd that takes pride of place between the plaster-bark. The bottle possesses a kind of loving pride, it suggests a faded narrative of a much adored, branch loving dog who has moved on to Doggy Heaven. Yet the hound remains fixed in the drinkers’ hearts, they often sit under their favourite tree while swigging beer from the bottle, shaped in the tree’s likeness of course.