An Unusual 19thC Stoneware Advertising Shop Window Display Figure sub-Curios During Mediaeval times many deer

During Mediaeval times many deer parks that held fallow deer were established and these and more recent park escapees have given rise to the free-living populations in Britain today

both for those who smoke or collect smoking paraphernalia or collectors of high end gadget canes themselves

suggesting exoticism

A strikingly vibrant and typically buoyant piece of functional fairground art

Although not important

An Unusual 19thC Stoneware Advertising Shop Window Display Figure sub-Curios During Mediaeval times many deerOrigin: German Austrian Period: Late Nineteenth Century Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1890 1900 Height: 32. 5 inches Width: 10 inches (at base) Depth: 10 inches (at base) The hand painted continental stoneware advertising figure of generous proportions designed to be displayed in a shop window, possibly in a German Apothecary, modelled as a boyish female with bun hair dressed in an apron standing proud with one arm on her waist, the other held upward