Figure of a woman with a shawl

designed by Stanislaw Emil Czapek, Goldscheider, Vienna, 19th/20th c.
painted terra cotta; signed on base: Czapeque, on the back the maker's mark, model number "3552" and "FABRICATION RESERVE"; overall height 96 cm.

Stanislaw Emil Czapek (1874 - after 1921)
He was educated at the Lviv School of Fine Arts and the Vienna Academy. For a long time he was the first sculptor at Friedrich Goldscheider's manufactory in Vienna. Around 1912 he returned to Poland, where he became director of the faience factory in Pacykowo.