Bust of a woman in the Levantine type

light terra cotta with traces of polychrome -painting with engobe,
rubbing; visible repair on woman's neck, crack on base;
height 77 cm, base 26 x 24 cm, width ca.52 cm;
Signed at the back near the base: in a relief rectangular frame with chamfered corners imprinted: VOR NACHAHMUNG GESCHÜTZT/ J. FRIED/ BODENSTADT
Czech Republic, Bodenstadt (Potštat),J. Fried (workshop?), con. XIX c.
On a rectangular base, bust of a woman with Levantine features, wearing a headscarf cast over her head supported by a thin band , falling to her back and shoulders and draped over her left shoulder and breast; a string of beads around her neck. Sculpture in the style of polychrome terracotta busts by Friedrich Goldscheider of Vienna, late 19th century.