A Rare Austrian Painted Terracotta Gnome by Johann Maresch c.1900 sub-Fairground-Sideshow & Circus There are few small sections

There are few small sections of nibbled loss to some mouldings and a little side-to-side movement in the joints

The late nineteenth century pine table having an unusual rectangular adjustable hinged two-plank work surface top revealing a slatted base with cast iron fitments and pine arms to the ends

now absent

bringing many neoclassical motifs into play

A Rare Austrian Painted Terracotta Gnome by Johann Maresch c.1900 sub-Fairground-Sideshow & Circus There are few small sectionsOrigin: 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