"rebecca At The Well", Gilded Terracotta, Goldscheider, 1903.

Large, imposing terracotta, height 0.94m, with a nuanced and golden patina, representing Rebecca, wife of Isaac and mother of Jacob and Esau. Titled on the terrace "Rebecca", signed Cherc and Goldscheider, numbered 250.55, dated 1903. Friedrich Goldscheider created the "Goldscheider porcelain and majolica factory" in 1885. We then moved from earthenware tableware and luxury porcelain objects to sumptuous polychrome terracotta sculptures. The collaboration extends to great artists such as Lorenzi, Chiparus, Bosse. The success is immediate and extends to the rest of Europe as far as the United States. Of an edifying naturalism, the productions are part of the orientalist trend of the time: the oriental or Berber characters strike by their realism. The factory will close its doors in 1938. Stamp Goldscheider, Wien, reproduction reserved, on the back. Some chips at the base.