Featured Need help with id on pottery couple marked Italy

Can anyone help me id this set of figurines, they are approx. 7" high and simply marked "Italy" on the bottom. Thank you!

 

Welcome to the Forum, Jamie!
Please go back in your post and check Full size for all photos. Also include underside photos. And reference size. Thank you,

 

Thanks! Somehow I got the photos to post twice, lol. The figurines are 7" tall.

 

You can just delete the extras. I’m sure someone will come along with some info.

 

Unless I'm missing some vent holes someplace, they are not porcelain.
Patd

 

No vent holes. Pottery?

 

Could it possible be Majolica?

 

Welcome to the forum, Jaime.
I feel like I am barging in on a conversation between a cute kitty and a cute puppy, but yes, it looks like majolica to me. And they are charming, something I would buy, as a collector of regional costumes.

@Walter Del Pellegrino , who has forgotten more about Italian ceramics than most of us will ever hope to know, has written before about ceramics that are just marked Italy. It is something I keep forgetting, but I've tagged him, so he will enlighten us when he has the time.

On the dress of the figurines: The man is dressed in a costume from the Hungarian Plain, the woman's costume is pretty generic European, but could be from Hungary as well. They could be from an Italian series of European folk costumes.

 

These figurines were most likely produced in the town of Bassano or Nove. Both are not far from Venice. They are simply glazed earthenware, not majolica. Although unmarked it has all the attributes seen in pieces by Teodoro Sebelin. He worked at a number of potteries in Nove during the 1920’s and 30’s. Eventually he opened his own studio which remained active until the 1970’s. Sebelin was not the only producing these figurines your pieces speak the name Teodoro. Do an image search on Google for his work. Thank you Any Jewelry.

 

And thank you, Walter.

 

Thank you so much!

 

Thank you so very much Walter, so happy to find such expertise here.

 

I want to sell these, is there a special forum or place to do this that is better than ebay?