CONTINENTAL CERAMIC BLACK AMERICANA / ETHNIC FIGURAL HUMIDORS, LOT OF THREE, comprising one depicting a tall haystack with a young African American figure holding a watermelon and peeking out from one side, and two examples with a globular-form gourd/melon including one featuring an African American boy laying on his stomach and wearing a tall top hat and remaining depicting a goateed figure wearing a headscarf emerging from the top. Each gourd example having impressed "JM", one with additional "Austria", and numerals to underside, haystack example having blue-printed "COPYRIGHTED" and impressed "RIGHTED / COPY". Johann Maresch, Austria or Czechoslovakia; and other. Fourth quarter 19th/first half 20th century. 9 1/4" HOA.
Literature: Parallels Horowitz - Figural Humidors, Mostly Victorian, beige gourd p.176, fig. 797 and green gourd p.182, fig. 828.

Green gourd example mostly undamaged, having a minute flake to bottom rim; haystack example undamaged, having some scattered scuff marks; beige gourd with some professional restoration.