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Description
15" (38 cm.) Sculpted earthenware head with highly-defined scowling facial wrinkles of ruddy-faced man leaning to the side and down-cast enamel eyes, his head wrapped in an attached turban, hemp-wrapped body, earthenware hands and lower legs with sculpted wrinkled leggings and bare front toes. Condition: generally excellent. Comments: Neapolitan, early 1800s. Value Points: presented as a villager in a lavish Neapolitan scene, the man is superbly-preserved, wearing original laced vest, jacket, cape, short trousers, and with leather belt and embroidered details.