Polychrome porcelain from the late 19th century. - Lot 181

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Polychrome porcelain from the late 19th century. - Lot 181
Polychrome porcelain from the late 19th century. A whimsical tobacco jar depicting a priest in a black cassock, wearing a clerical hat with curved brims, crushed by a voluminous red Phrygian cap symbolizing the Republic. One cannot help but think of little Father Combe, Jules Ferry’s secular school system, the 1905 law separating church and state, and the great Voltaire, who added “ec l’inf” beneath his signature—standing for “crush the infamous”; the infamous being, of course, the Holy Roman Apostolic Church (anticlerical). No mark. France, Paris Limoges. Broken and re-glued. H: 15 cm - 5.9 in - Class H 15 cm
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