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 striped jacket and mustard cap; the second, in a red shawl and white 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. A printed label affixed to the front bears the Hebrew words “Holy Day” and a German expression (unclear). H: 167mm x W: 210mm. Few chips

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