AN ITALIAN TERRACOTTA AND PAPIER MACHE CRECHE GROUP OF THREE SHOEMAKERS

LATE 19TH CENTURY, PROBABLY BY GAETANO GEMMALO, SICILY

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AN ITALIAN TERRACOTTA AND PAPIER MACHE CRECHE GROUP OF THREE SHOEMAKERS
LATE 19TH CENTURY, PROBABLY BY GAETANO GEMMALO, SICILY
Modelled as a shoemaker stretching a piece of leather, as his companion demonstrates a hole in the sole of the shoe he has removed from his foot., the young apprentice with rope cord, with hand written ink label to the front of the painted cork base inscribed 'Ciambattini di Catalagirona/ Gaetano Gemmalo, 1968'
12 ¼ in. (31 cm.) high; 15 ½ in. (39.5 cm.) wide

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Lot Essay

The ink inscribed label identifies this work as by the hand of Gaetano Gammalo (c.1800-c.1899), a sculptor from Messina, Sicily, active in the late nineteenth century. A large tableau depicting the Massacre of the Innocents by Gemmalo is on view at the Museo della Devozione in Calvaruso, Sicily.

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