: Presented is a beautiful porcelain statue/figurine made in Germany by the factory of Conta and Boehme in around the 1890s -1900.

The Conta and Boehme factory can be traced to the year of 1814 when Albert Wilhelm Ernst Conta and Christian Gottlieb Boehme purchased a small porcelain factory in the town of Poessneck. By the second half of the 1800s the factory was producing many small household porcelain items: dolls, figurines, trays, boxes, inkwells, and also matchboxes with matchstrikers that became an important collectible objects.

I am starting to post a small collection of Conte and Boehme match strikers. This one is a beautiful figurine with a box for matches and a striker plate. The matchbox is made in a form of a well with a figure of a boy filling his water pitcher.  Marked with Conta and Boehme impressed shield mark and the model number 4238. The ink mark is the painter's mark.

It is a nicely crafted artistic representation of late 19th century young children with wonderful details and handpainted.

The matchstriker is in excellent condition with no losses or repairs.

It is 4.5" tall, 2.5" wide.