Parker & Morris: The Art of Decorating - 17th April 2024

Lot 798

AN ITALIAN CREAMWARE POTTERY FIGURE OF A GIRAFFE AND ATTENDANT

Estimate £200 - £300 | Hammer £101

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Description

AN ITALIAN CREAMWARE POTTERY FIGURE OF A GIRAFFE AND ATTENDANT

BY CONTIERO, ESTE, EARLY 20TH CENTURY

depicting a young African boy walking alongside his charge, raised on a low rocky base, with an impressed mark for the Contiero factory, together with a Parian figure of a recumbent lion (2)

30cm high (max)

Provenance

Parker & Morris: The Art of Decorating.

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