Wilhelm THOMASCH (1893-1964) - model from ca. 1922
fine faience, ceramic paints (decoration partly handmade), lead-borax glaze;
slight rubbing of glaze on edges of platform;
height approx. 34.5 cm, base 17 x 16 cm;
on back of platform near top edge engraved under-glaze: Thomasch, signature repeated indistinctly on back of platform, above base moulding; on corner of base at back, imprint: in circle, mark similar to lying C; underneath in black print: bound monogram GW in oval (barely legible), above semicircular: Goldscheider, below: Wien; beside: MADE IN AUSTRIA; illegible monogram (LT?); handwritten in black XXVII / D 2; impressions: 5030(model number) / 233 / 19.
Austria, Vienna, 1920s.
On a low square base with rounded corners, on a cuboidal platform sits a young woman dressed as Pierrette (a female variant of Pierrot): wearing a floral, black piped jacket with wide sleeves, a black, slightly raised orifice and plumes; wearing black stiletto heels, with a leg put on. Under her right hand she supports a lute lowered with the griffin down and tied at the head with a sash with a bow falling to the platform.
Designed by academic Austrian sculptor Wilhelm Thomasch, who worked for Goldscheider in the 1920s [Thomasch's models were also fired in Pacykow].
The sculptor worked at his own ceramic factory in Sierndorf (Lower Austria) from 1926 until his death.
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