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

two-sided, to be placed in a corner (tiles on two sides); red-bodied ceramic, green glazed; relief ornaments with leaping deer in a stylised landscape, with plants and fir branches; corner with eagle motif in trefoil shape; upper finial of the cornice partly wavy with border; below with raised base; front area with black patinated metal grid in the middle, open underneath for heater or stove; professionally restored; partly chipped; total height: 145.5 cm, width: 106.5 cm, depth: 65.5 cm. (MP) Literature: cf. drawing of a leaping deer: Gollner, Gmundner Keramik, p. 79, ill. 106. Another cladding for a heater or stove is offered in this auction. The tiles have a different green glaze, but the same motif. One tile is marked “Tonindustrie Scheibbs” on the reverse.