Goldscheider Painted Earthenware Maid Figurine or Glaneuse''.

Goldscheider Painted Earthenware Maid Figurine or Glaneuse''. A Glaneuse (the English word is ''Gleaner'') is a person who, with the aid of a rake, throws drying harvested hay, grass etc into the air to promote speedier drying out. This example portrays the woman resting on her hay rake, with hand on her hip, staring off into the distance. 
Very early large figural Maid by E. Tell for Goldscheider, Austria c1900, made of terracotta.
H27" W13" D15"
£525
Ref/NP2595