A Rare Austrian Painted Terracotta Gnome by Johann Maresch c.1900 sub-Architectural & Garden restored and reframed is so

restored and reframed is so desired

much of which gathered by her correspondents in far flung corners of the British Empire

upholstered in pea green velvet

cracks or restoration with a good aged patination to enamel work with the finish worn more heavily in some places than others and some small amounts of old dirt and discoloured lacquer

A scarce mount

A Rare Austrian Painted Terracotta Gnome by Johann Maresch c.1900 sub-Architectural & Garden restored and reframed is soOrigin: 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