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This is a great piece from the Depression era that is made of chalkware or some sort of plaster composite.  It is the bust of a Chinese woman.  It is copyrighted and signed in the back by the artist, Esther Hunt.  It is beautifully hand painted and there are some spots of missing paint and/or surface chips.  Most of it is missing paint rather than chips and can easily be touched up but is to be expected on a piece of this age.  There is a ton of detail on her clothes and she has a beautiful face.  On the bottom in pencil it says Jonquil and has the numbers 240 or some sort of symbol.  This comes from my Grandmother's estate and was a wedding gift to her in the 1920's.  These sell for over $1,000 at auction in California so this is a real bargain.  Shipping includes double boxed and insurance.  It measures 6" long and is 6 1/2" tall.

Esther HUNT  1875 – 1951 Esther Anna Hunt was born in Grand Island, Nebraska on August 30, 1875. She moved to San Diego in 1881 and she grew up on a ranch there. From 1896-1900 she worked as an artist in Los Angeles. Upon moving to San Francisco, she studied art at the Mark Hopkins Institute (1901). As a means to finance her art studies, she began painting Chinatown subjects which she sent to a New York dealer who readily sold them. After studying portraiture with William M. Chase in New York City from 1905-06, she continued her studies for six years in Paris. While in Paris her portrait of her sister was hung in the Paris Salon. Returning to California, she had a studio in Los Angeles for four years and from 1918-27 she lived in San Francisco; during 1927-31 she lived in Greenwich Village in New York City. The years 1932-46 were again spent in San Francisco. Her oils, watercolors, etchings, and colored ceramic figurines were very popular with the general public during her productive years, having been reproduced commercially for postcards, calendars, prints, busts, etc. Hunt was very fond of the artistically-created and individually-named "children" she would never have in real life. After a stroke ended her career, she was taken to the Santa Ana (CA) Rest Home. A spinster, she died there on March 4, 1951.

 

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