Tobacco Case In The Shape Of A Dog, J. Maresch Ceramic Factory, Last Quarter Of The 19th Century

The tobacco case in the shape of a dog was made around the years 1860-1880 at the ceramics factory Johann Maresch (Bohemia-Austria). Johann Maresch (1821-1914) joined Adolf Bähr as business manager in 1845, who in 1841 took over the first production of siderolith household items in Aussig. After Bähr's death in 1849, he married his daughter Marie Luise. In 1851, he became a shareholder in the new company "Bähr & Maresch" with his mother-in-law Wilhelmine Bähr. Under his direction, production expanded to terracotta art and majolica. In 1860 Maresch took over the company under his own name "Johann Maresch, Aussig / Bohemia", of which he held the management until 1890. In 1873 his son Ferdinand joined the company and decisively advanced the business success. Maresch's products were popular throughout Europe and even abroad

Literature: Stéphane Richemond "Orientalist and Africanist terracotta, 1860-1940", Les Editions de l´Amateur, Paris, 1999.;
Inscription: Signed on the base of the female figure and the number of the work on the back of the base of the male figure.
Technique: burnished and polychrome painted terracotta
Measurements: each top 23 cm.
Condition: in good condition, slightly dented.