PAINTED CLAY SCULPTURE Zizenhausen (also spelled Sitzenhausen), Germany, late 19th century

Jewish genre scene. From the left, a man talks as three women and a child listen attentively: the first, with her walking stick, wears a red and black striped jacket and red hat; the second, in a white shawl and hat, has one hand on the shoulder of a young boy in a cap, and a basket on the other arm; the fouth figure, a seated woman, feeds a goose. H: 167mm x W: 210mm. Some chips.

See W. Fraenger, Der Bilderman von Zizenhausen(1922), p. 31; J. Weinstein, A Collector’s Guide to Judaica (1985), no. 232, p. 174