Goldscheider Vienna Ceramics Spanish Dance by Josef Lorenzl, Around 1930

Excellent Goldscheider Vienna Art Déco Ceramic Figurine: Dancer in Spanish costume: long skirt with slit above the knee and embroidered bolero jac...

Depiction of a dancer in Spanish costume: she wears a mantilla, a veil cloth that covers the head and neck down to the shoulders. Often, as here, a high comb is also tucked underneath, the peineta. The cloth is still worn today for festive costumes and is mostly made in lace technique. In addition, the dancer wears an elaborately decorated with floral patterns asymmetrical ruffled skirt. On oval, black-beige marbled base in rare execution. This figure also exists as a group 'Spanish Dance' with dance partner, model number 7557, a more frequent version. Designed by Josef LORENZL (1892 - 1950), an Austrian sculptor and ceramic modeler. His bronze statuettes often show graceful dancers with long...

Goldscheider Art Deco Ceramic Sculpture of a Dancing Couple Spanish Dancers Motif Circa 1930, Vienna, Austria Excellent condition, no cracks or chips, no restorations Marked, sealed, and numbered on the base Signed by its designer, Josef Lorenzl Model No. 5775 Material: Painted Ceramic Josef Lorenzl (September 1, 1892 – August 15, 1950) was an Austrian sculptor and ceramicist of the Art Deco period, the same era as Ferdinand Preiss (1882–1943) and Demetre Chiparus (1886–1947). Lorenzl was born on September 1, 1882, in Vienna, Austria, and died there on August 15, 1950. Little is known about his early years, but more is known about his later life. Lorenzl began his career working at a foundry at the Vienna Arsenal, where he learned bronze casting techniques. The Vienna Arsenal was a military storage...

For you consideration is this large figural group beautiful and rare, dating to the 1930's France porcelain sculpture in polychrome. Features a stylised pair of eighteenth-century no...