Vintage Handmade Pottery Ceramic Glaze Figurine Goat Deer 60s Folk Pottery
Item History & Price
Reference Number: Avaluer:42314529 | Featured Refinements: Vintage Ceramic Figurine |
Country/Region of Manufacture: Ukraine | Handmade: Yes |
Brand: Opishne, Oposhnya |
FOLK POTTERY
This product is a work of folk art. Such items, small and large, were made from clay by hand by master potters. Each figurine was a work of art, and basically it was rare to find two of the same, that is, the figurine were almost never repeated. The sculptures were produced at the Art Ceramics plant, which was located in the city of Oposhnya, Poltava region and operated from 1929-2002. In ...addition, other master potters made many products at home. To date, such sculptures are not produced.
They look very impressive and can decorate any interior. This sculpture was made between 1960 and 1970.
Manufacturing technique: Clay, Pottery Wheel, Glaze (green & brown), Modelling Clay, Identation by Fingers.
Such sculptures are stored in private collections and in Museum of Ukrainian Folk and Decorative Art, National Centre of Folk Culture " Ivan Honchar Museum" and others Museums of Ukraine.
Such sculptures were intended not only for interior decoration, but also for storing drinks. This sculpture depicts a Goat (Deer).
Condition: There are chips on the antlers of the deer, which may have been restored by the previous owner of the figurine and were painted over with brown paint. But it can only be seen at close range
Measurements: lenght- 22 cm., height- 30 cm.,