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Objekt 20

Couple in the traditional costume of the canton Schwyz

Description

This group comes from the first of the three costume series of the Zizenhausen workshop. It shows an alpine dairyman, who has put down his back stretcher with a tightly bound wheel of cheese, in relaxed conversation with a young woman.

Object description

Anton Sohn workshop, Zizenhausen near Stockach (Baden-Württemberg), mid-19th century.

Clay, molded in model, fired, painted

Gift Hans Burckhardt-Burckhardt, Basel

Inv. 1900.13.

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