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A Man About Town

Stock No

5255

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2015
  • £1,700.00
  • €1,988 Euro
  • $2,125 US Dollar

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Item Description

A terracotta sculpture of a smartly dressed young African American man. Cold painted terracotta, stamped beneath BB for the maker Bernhard Bloch.
22.25 inchs high
Bernard Bloch was an entrepreneur in the Austro-Hungarian ceramic industry. In 1895 he purchased the successful firm of C. Teichert, Eichwald, and gained fame by the production of figural tobacco containers and other tobacco products, together with a range of finely modelled terracotta figures such as our Man About Town. During the Second World War the factory was confiscated by the Nazis and sold to the company of Dr. H. Wider & Co. from the German city of Thuringe.

Item Info

Seller

WALPOLES

Seller Location

London, London

Period

19th Century

Item Location

United Kingdom

Seller Location

London, London

Item Location

United Kingdom

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+44 (0)207 7275263

+44 (0)7831 561042

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