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CONTINENTAL CERAMIC WOMAN FIGURAL HUMIDORS, LOT OF THREE, comprising one depicting a tavern server holding a pitcher and wearing a heart-shaped necklace and two examples featuring market/kitchen women holding baskets with vegetables. Marks to underside include impressed "BU", "JM", and various numerals. Johann Maresch, Austria or Czechoslovakia; and other. Fourth quarter 19th/first half 20th century. 10 3/4" HOA.
Literature: Horowitz - Figural Humidors, Mostly Victorian, tavern server p. 94, fig. 416 and woman with vegetables p. 95, fig. 422.
Market/kitchen women mostly undamaged, except sitting example having a flake to base rim interior and standing example with some paint touch-ups; tavern woman with some scattered flakes and paint touch-ups; most having some scattered glaze wear/losses.
From the collection of Allen Gurst, Delray Beach, FL.