A Rare Austrian Painted Terracotta Gnome by Johann Maresch c.1900 sub-Religion & Relics Length: 9 inches

Length: 9 inches

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Diameter: 22

A Rare Austrian Painted Terracotta Gnome by Johann Maresch c.1900 sub-Religion & Relics Length: 9 inchesOrigin: 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