Terracotta clay with a slight sheen;
height: 10 cm, base: 17.5 x 7 cm, length: approx. 23 cm;
Signed on underside of base with imprint: PEXIDER / LETOVICE, engraved: 17, on top of base left engraved F.HOŘAVA, on back of base engraved: Δ, 1938.
Czech Republic (Moravia), Letovice, František Pexider's factory (founded 1925), author of the model: František Hořava (1906-1974), 1938.
On an irregular, oblong, base a naked woman lying by a rock with her hands folded over her head. The figurine was made at František Pexider's factory in Letovice, Moravia, founded in 1925; many works by well-known Czech and Moravian ceramists active in the 1st half of the 20th century were realized here.
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