Stove cladding with ceramic tiles depicting leaping deer, based on a design by Dagobert Peche, Gmunden or Tonindustrie Scheibbs, c. 1920

to be placed in a niche; eight tiles in the outer area (four tiles on the right and four on the left) and six tiles inside (three tiles on either side above the base); red-bodied ceramic, glazed green; relief ornaments with leaping deer in a stylised landscape; with base; subsequently applied stone slab at top; professionally restored, partly chipped; total height: 115.0 cm, width 107.0 cm, depth 46.0 cm. (MP) Literature: cf. drawing of a leaping deer: Gollner, Gmundner Keramik, p. 79, ill. 106. The auction offers a cladding for a heater or stove with a different glaze and the same motif. One tile is marked “Tonindustrie Scheibbs” on the reverse.