{"product_id":"terracotta-sculpture-of-an-archers-hand-50464","title":"Terracotta Sculpture of an Archer's Hand, Fragment Study on Wood Base","description":"\u003cp\u003eFragment sculpture — hands and partial limbs cast or modeled in terracotta — was a recognized studio exercise and a finished decorative form in its own right throughout the 19th and into the early 20th century, prized by collectors of curiosities for the way an isolated gesture can suggest an entire narrative without the rest of the figure.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis piece renders a clenched hand drawing back an unseen bowstring, gripping a shaped terracotta form left rough and irregular along one edge, as though broken away from a larger figure — the fragment aesthetic reads as deliberate rather than as damage. It is mounted on a small wood base. The piece carries a signature, though it is not legible in the photographs provided, so the maker cannot be identified with confidence. It is offered as art deco in date, though beyond the seller's own description no maker or period evidence has been confirmed. Leaving a sculpted fragment with a deliberately rough, broken edge rather than finishing it as a complete figure was itself a recognized stylistic choice — makers used it to suggest antiquity or evoke a classical ruin, a technique known as non-finito that borrowed its prestige from Michelangelo's unfinished marbles and from Grand Tour souvenir fragments.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCondition is excellent overall, per the seller. The piece has clearly been well cared for, and now moves forward to a new setting. Well suited to a shelf, a mantel, or a cabinet of curiosities, where the gesture of the hand can be appreciated up close.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eStanding 30 cm high including its wood base, the piece has real presence despite its compact, single-gesture subject.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDETAILS\u003cbr\u003e\nSize: 30 cm high including base (11.8 in\u003cbr\u003e\nMaterial: terracotta on a wood base\u003cbr\u003e\nStyle-Period: art deco\u003cbr\u003e\nShipping: professionally packed, fully insured, worldwide — we handle the paperwork, with all import duties paid by us; nothing to settle on delivery\u003cbr\u003e\nCondition: excellent overall\u003cbr\u003e\nReturns: accepted within 30 days\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Maison Jaspers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":59590091145561,"sku":"LM-V-233","price":442.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1063\/5388\/5529\/files\/il_fullxfull.8620344665_nzx6.jpg?v=1790423959","url":"https:\/\/maisonjaspers.com\/products\/terracotta-sculpture-of-an-archers-hand-50464","provider":"Maison Jaspers","version":"1.0","type":"link"}