A Rare Austrian Painted Terracotta Gnome by Johann Maresch c.1900 sub-Beth Carter @ Doe & Hope Much harder to come by

Much harder to come by with an original painted finish and thus fiercely sought after

The early one piece folk art cane

and stained pine construction with gilded pillars having a background of elephants

under the guidance of the Craces

A Rare Austrian Painted Terracotta Gnome by Johann Maresch c.1900 sub-Beth Carter @ Doe & Hope Much harder to come byOrigin: 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