Carved Wild Boar
Carved Wild Boar
Producer
Polaško-Garbar Michal, Kováčiková-Horová Júlia
SKU
26517302
Material
clay
Craft
clay craft, jug making
Size
plastika: length = 15.5 cm; plastika: height = 9.0 cm
About product
Terracotta sculpture of a wild boar, red clay, hand-thrown on a wheel and molded by hand. The animal is standing. The body is dark brown with green stripes. Clear glaze.
The name of the sculptor Julie Kováčiková-Horová remains alive in the awareness of visual artists, museum professionals, ethnographers, and in broader academic and cultural circles, primarily due to her creative activity in the traditional pottery center in eastern Slovakia, in Pozdišovce
Polaško-Garbar Michal
The last Slovak master potter Michal Polaško-Garbar from Pozdišovce, born in 1883, discovered pottery through hollow ceramics in his father’s workshop. He started his own production in 1990.
Hollow ceramics formed one direction of his...
More about the author
Kováčiková-Horová Júlia
The name of the sculptor Julie Kováčiková-Horová remains alive in the awareness of visual artists, museum professionals, ethnographers, and in broader academic and cultural circles, primarily due to her creative activity in the traditional pottery center in eastern Slovakia, in Pozdišovce
