Italian Statue
A vintage hand-painted Italian glazed ceramic statue depicting an expressive street vendor or hawker calling out to passersby.
- Expressive Figurative Modeling: Skillfully sculpted with dynamic realism, depicting a street vendor wearing a cap, long coat, and work trousers, with one hand cupped to his mouth in a classic town crier gesture.
- Hand-Painted Polychrome Glaze: Richly decorated with glossy majolica glazes in shades of slate grey, moss green, warm ochre, and earthy browns over an earthenware body.
- Artistic Italian Folk Tradition: Evokes the mid-20th-century Italian artisan pottery tradition (reminiscent of Nove di Bassano or Lenci school character figures), capturing everyday working-class life with warmth and humor.
- Preservation & Condition: Set on an integrated rounded base; well preserved with vibrant glaze luster and authentic light age-consistent surface character.
Last Visited Products
MAM-12Age: 1935
264 x 378 cm / 8'8" x 12'5" feetCHF 1,600Semi antique, the knots are hand spun lamb wool, the background color is warm red with center medallion, minor moth damages, in its original shape.
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K-3011Age: 1905
135 x 204 cm / 4'5" x 6'8" feetCHF 2,600Antique, collectors item, vegetable dyes, the black and the brown knots are oxidized, the knots are hand spun wool, the background color is indigo, the surrounded large border is warm red,very rare design, the pile is slightly short, the selvages needs to be rolled, finely knotted, in its original shape.
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K-1938Age: 1935
78 x 155 cm / 2'7" x 5'1" feetCHF 1,680Collectors item, vegetable dyes, the black knots are oxidized, the knots are hand spun lamb wool, indigo background, allover ornament design, high pile, in perfect condition, both edges are finished with 2cm kilim, in its original shape.
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K-4629Age: 1925
100 x 400 cm / 3'3" x 13'1" feetCHF 2,600Semi-antique, vegetable dyes, the black knots are oxidized, the knots are hand spun wool, indigo background, designed with people animals and tree of life, thick pile, rare design, in good condition, in its original shape.
