A Rare Austrian Painted Terracotta Gnome by Johann Maresch c.1900 sub-Architectural & Garden landings or indeed the sitting

landings or indeed the sitting room by the fireside

restored and reframed is so desired

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

At Feet: 18” square

and for another

A Rare Austrian Painted Terracotta Gnome by Johann Maresch c.1900 sub-Architectural & Garden landings or indeed the sittingOrigin: 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