213. A Continental Figure of a Posy Seller, circa 1800

Modeled as a blond boy garbed in a loose white blouse, yellow breaches, floral stockings, and blue shoes, balancing a hat on his knees, grasping posies in one hand and seated on a small bocage outcropping applied with leaves and a bucket of flowers to one side, all raised above a round scroll base picked out in pink.
4 1/2" h.

200/400     

Condition: applied floral decoration chipped, ribbons on hat chipped, two leaves on bocage chipped, hairline fracture on back of seat, firing crack extends across base.