An Italian polychrome earthenware figure group, late 18th century, probably Veneto

modelled as three figures about a tree, a young man seated playing a pipe, a young woman standing holding a shuttle in her left hand and a child standing behind her, raised on a grassy mound base applied with flowers,

Repair to tree adjacent to top of woman's head. Some losses to leaves and branches. Woman's little finger of left hand lacking. Length of string/wool in her right hand lacking. Repaired breaks through boy's left leg and right shoe. Small chips to his hat and fingers. Some losses to applied flowers and leaves on the base.
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