A SMALL DUTCH DELFT FIGURE OF A GENTLEMAN PLAYING WITH A SNAKE, painted in colours and naturalistically modelled in relief, wearing a manganese-red tricorn hat over his long blue hair, his face outlined in blue, with orange mouth and cheeks, his jacket green, his buttoned vest yellow, with manganese-red scarf, yellow breeches, holding a yellow snake in both hands, seated on green rockwork, on square canted green base with yellow sides, 18th Century

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A SMALL DUTCH DELFT FIGURE OF A GENTLEMAN PLAYING WITH A SNAKE, painted in colours and naturalistically modelled in relief, wearing a manganese-red tricorn hat over his long blue hair, his face outlined in blue, with orange mouth and cheeks, his jacket green, his buttoned vest yellow, with manganese-red scarf, yellow breeches, holding a yellow snake in both hands, seated on green rockwork, on square canted green base with yellow sides, 18th Century
circa 11 cm high

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