A 19thC Italian Painted Ceramic Figure of a Chanting Monk sub-Curios Of an elegant circular form

Of an elegant circular form

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The provincial period oak carcass of desirable proportions and beautifully aged patination having an unorthodox arrangement of four short and three long graduated cockbeaded drawers with turned knob handles and unusual moulded oak escutcheons

the Latin reading INF: SENEG: CON

Once having been the central section of a very large three-piece dressing mirror

A 19thC Italian Painted Ceramic Figure of a Chanting Monk sub-Curios Of an elegant circular formOrigin: Italian Period: Mid Late 19thC Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1870 Height: 20 Width: 10 Depth: 7 (the base 6. 5) The relatively large hand painted ceramic figure of a chanting monk, clutching a book of hymns, standing in his robes, the whole polychrome painted, the skin to the head and hands painted to imitate ivory, his face with wonderful animated expression, the brown robes with green tracery borders and the whole on a rustic circular base