Auction 15 A Special Major Sale. Part 1: The Bloch Family Collection - Australia, and Other Items of Judaica.
By Taj Art
Monday, Nov 25, 6:30 PM
Jerusalem, Israel
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LOT 55:

"Jews from Karlsbad". Terra Cotta (Rough Clay), Bohemia ca. 1900


Price including buyer’s premium: $ 250 (₪928.76)
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$ 200
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"Jews from Karlsbad". Terra Cotta (Rough Clay), Bohemia ca. 1900

The figures of three Jews sitting on a bench and talking; this is a late version of the well-known motif of rural Jews in bench talks. 


Terra Cotta ('cooked earth' in Italian) is a unique name given to a certain type of rough, flexible and porous clay as well as to utensils, sculptures and structural elements (tiles, bricks and roof tiles) made of the fired substance. 


Small repair to one of the feet. 



Wiesemann, Falk, Visual Illusions about Jews: The Finkelstein Collection of Antisemitica (Essen: Klartext, 2024). Cat. No. 259, Page 240.




Provenance: The Bloch Family Collection, Melbourne-Australia.

Weight:  1852 gr
Measurement:  27 x 25 cm