A HOECHST PORCELAIN FIGURE OF A PLAYCARD SELLER, modelled by Johann Peter Melchior, from the series of Les Cris de Paris, painted in colours and naturalistically modelled in relief, the standing figure wearing; a yellow hat, a pink bodice, holding a box filled with playcards, against a treetrunk, on grassy base
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A HOECHST PORCELAIN FIGURE OF A PLAYCARD SELLER, modelled by Johann Peter Melchior, from the series of Les Cris de Paris, painted in colours and naturalistically modelled in relief, the standing figure wearing; a yellow hat, a pink bodice, holding a box filled with playcards, against a treetrunk, on grassy base
circa 1780
16.5 cm high
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