PACYKOV - Alexander Lewicki's Faience and Terracotta Factory in Pacikov, Monkey on the Books

delicate faience, ceramic paints in brown-beige-gray range, lead-borax glaze; slight craquelure; height ca. 27 cm, base 9.5 x 11 cm; signed on underside inside base in green print: 2-part shield with Rogala coat of arms, with jewel, around shield: POLOGNE / PACYKÓW K/ ST. / GALICIE; at inner edge in green: 1.; on the base at the back, on the left, on the pages of the book: in a rectangular field a convex impression: a bipartite shield with the Rogala coat of arms, with a jewel, around the shield faintly legible inscriptions: POLOGNE / PACYKÓW / .....?; on the right, near the binding closer to the spine an imprint: TRADE MARK / MADE IN AUSTRIA and engraved: 307 II / 25 (above the imprint) and 10 (?) - D.
State of preservation: small chip at the spine edge of the lower book.
Pacyków, Alexander Lewicki's Faience and Terracotta Factory, ca. 1912-1918.
Figure of a huddled monkey with its head bowed, embracing its knees with its paws, sitting on two books.
An early piece, the figure fired in various sizes until the 1930s.
Cf. realization from 1914-1914 (1918) in the collection of the National Museum in Cracow;
publ:
-) Bożena Kostuch, Ceramics from the 1st Half of the 20th Century in the Collection of the National Museum in Cracow, Cracow 2001, cat. 252;
-) Rempex, [catalog] 203 Art and Antiques Auction, 19.03.2014, cat. item 613 - figurine from the 1920s/30s.