Schoolchildren By Cherc & Goldscheider

Rare terracotta from the famous Austrian Goldscheider factory, with brown and gilt bronze paint, bearing on the terrace the signature of Cherc, a French sculptor active around 1900.
This adorable allegorical sculpture on an oval base represents two schoolboys standing shoulder to shoulder.
The boy shyly raises his finger to his mouth while clutching a slate with an attached pencil. The girl carries a book on which is written "Music" and passes the boy an apple symbolizing paradise.
On the back of the base, there is the Goldscheider hallmark with a rectangular medal and reproduction stamp, reserve, stamped model number 3058/74/7. The shape number IX is incised inside the base.

Friedrich Siegfried Goldscheider, born in Bohemia in 1845, headed the famous eponymous factory in Austria-Hungary, which pioneered technical innovations in polychromy that led to several patents: the new green, chrome ebony, and wood brown in 1897, and a process for imitating bronze in 1891.
Goldscheider exhibited throughout Europe, including Leipzig, Barcelona, ​​Paris, Edinburgh, Vienna, Budapest, Trieste, and Dresden, and won numerous awards. A bronze manufacturing subsidiary was established in 1892 in Paris, on Rue Paradis. He died in Nice in 1897.

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