A 19thC Italian Painted Ceramic Figure of a Chanting MonkOrigin: Italian Period: Mid Late 19thC Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1870 Height: 20 Width: 10 Depth: 7 (the base 6. 5) The relatively large hand painted ceramic figure of a chanting monk, clutching a book of hymns, standing in his robes, the whole polychrome painted, the skin to the head and hands painted to imitate ivory, his face with wonderful animated expression, the brown robes with green tracery borders and the whole on a rustic circular base