Lot n° 195
Register for the sale on drouot.com
Leave absentee bid
Your amount
EUR
Bid by phone
Bid by phone
Your amount
EUR
Tobacco Jar - Lot 195
Tobacco Jar
Earthenware, late 19th century
A large composite piece consisting of a midnight-blue drum, strung with golden cords, which serves as the tobacco jar. On the lid, a zany, caricatured clown with spiky red hair, wearing pink tights, green shorts, and red shoes, sits cross-legged, holding a cymbal in one hand and a drumstick in the other.
His exaggeratedly joyful expression, which barely conceals genuine distress, perpetuates the myth of the sad clown.
No markings.
Italy?
Some signs of wear.
H 33 cm
My orders
Sale information
Sales conditions
Return to catalogue