PACYKOV, Alexander Rogal-Levicki's Faience Factory, Puff on the books

fine faience, lead-borax glaze, underglaze decoration with ceramic paints (some sprayed);
two chips of glaze on edges of upper book, two small losses of glaze on owl's head and wing tip;
height: 42 cm, base diameter 19.5 cm;
Signed in black print on the back of the base: in an oval, the Rogal coat of arms surmounted by a slatted cartouche with an inscription: PACYKÓW, on the underside impressions: Made in Poland, and (faintly legible): 549/ 263/ 3/ , engraved diagonal large: I
Poland, Pacyków k/Stanisławow, Aleksander Rogala-Lewicki Faience Factory; design (dated 1897) bought from Vaclav Suchanek; interwar period (1920s).
cf: Faience from Pacykow, (exhibition catalog), Kozienice Regional Museum 2001, cat. 42-43, pp. 50-51.