A Rare Austrian Painted Terracotta Gnome by Johann Maresch c.1900 sub-Architectural & Garden the pronounced muzzle and vertically

the pronounced muzzle and vertically stitched nose with elongated central stitches possibly indicating early German manufacture

The work can be compared closely on stylistic and compositional grounds to treatments of the subject by Northern Italian masters

landings or indeed the sitting room by the fireside

and by marriage Princess of Orange and Countess of Nassau

A Rare Austrian Painted Terracotta Gnome by Johann Maresch c.1900 sub-Architectural & Garden the pronounced muzzle and verticallyOrigin: AustrianPeriod: Late 19thC Provenance: UnknownDate: c. 1900Height: 23Depth: 17Width: 12The beautifully decorative and very scarce garden gnome in terracotta being polychrome hand decorated, the smiling gnome in a casual seated position and smoking a pipe, the whole with impressed makers mark JM for Johann Maresch, visible with the inventory number 6869, the whole surviving from turn of the century Austria. The gnome has had some historic