A 19thC Italian Painted Ceramic Figure of a Chanting Monk sub-Curios The hand at work here

The hand at work here is very skilled

Other telltale signs included a ruddy complexion with the mouth and nails clotted with blood

25” wide x 1

Of an elegant circular form

The provincial period oak carcass of desirable proportions and beautifully aged patination having an unorthodox arrangement of four short and three long graduated cockbeaded drawers with turned knob handles and unusual moulded oak escutcheons

A 19thC Italian Painted Ceramic Figure of a Chanting Monk sub-Curios The hand at work hereOrigin: Italian Period: Mid Late 19thC Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1870 Height: 20 Width: 10 Depth: 7 (the base 6. 5) The relatively large hand painted ceramic figure of a chanting monk, clutching a book of hymns, standing in his robes, the whole polychrome painted, the skin to the head and hands painted to imitate ivory, his face with wonderful animated expression, the brown robes with green tracery borders and the whole on a rustic circular base