A Dutch Delft polychrome figure of a Peddler or Street vendor, circa 1760

modelled standing wearing a tricorn hat and green coat, holding a tray strapped over his shoulder, painted with his wares including spectacles, scissors and combs balanced upon an ochre-yellow staff, the square base with chamfered corners painted to simulate paving stones,

Art Céramique Ancien Nicolier, Paris.

J.F. Heijbroek & A.Th.P van Griensven, Kunst, kennis en kwaliteit, Zwolle, 2007, p. 126, illustrated in a photograph from 1952;
Christine Lahaussois, Delft - Faïence, Paris, 2008, p. 181, fig. 8.

Some typical glaze flaking but overall in very good condition.
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Models of merchants or street vendors are uncommon in Dutch Delft and were inspired by the earlier series of figures produced through the European porcelain factories in the mid-18th century, particularly the Cries de Paris series at Meissen. A related figure was produced at Meissen, and in the English factories referred to as a Jewish Pedlar. A particularly close print, perhaps the source for the present model is Le Marchand juif ambulant by Matthias Salieth (1749-1791), reproduced by Lahaussois, op. cit, fig. 9.