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'Banjo Play' Zerline Balten As A Banjo Player, Goldscheider Vienna, ca 1930

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Rare Art Déco Goldscheider Art Ceramic Figurine around 1930. Zerline Balten, a Viennese dancer and actress, is depicted accompanying herself in her 'fantasy dance' on a banjo. The young lady is wearing a winter costume, flared top and skirt in bright violet, fur hems, also on the wide sleeves and as a ruff, a matching cap, leaning slightly to the right and playing the banjo, with a pierrot figure in green and a colorful suit decorated with spikes and flowers sitting at her feet, playing the cymbals. The figure is based on a stepped, beige round base with gray shading on the sides, artist's signature 'Dakon' on the pierrot's jacket. Designed by STEPHAN DAKON (1904 - 1997), one of the most important designerswho worked for the Goldscheider manufactory from 1924 until the mid-fifties. Dakon designed this model circa 1927. made circa 1930 Manufactory: Goldscheider Vienna / Austria Material & Technique: hand-crafted ceramics, white earthenware, hand-painted, glossy finish Size: height: 34,0 cm / 13.38 in width: 19,0 cm / 7.48 in depth: 13,0 cm / 5.11 in Marks: model number 5659 / 49 / 10 Goldscheider Wien (Vienna) manufactory stamp MADE IN AUSTRIA / HAND-DECORATED painter's and former's signs existing artist's signature on pierrot figure Bibliography: DECHANT / GOLDSCHEIDER, GOLDSCHEIDER: Firmengeschichte und Werkverzeichnis / History of the company and catalogue of works, Stuttgart (Germany), 2007, Page 412, Number 5659 Condition: excellent

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