A DUTCH DELFT BLUE AND WHITE FIGURE OF A THORNDRAWER (il Spinario), naturalistically modelled in relief with a young boy wearing a hat, a buttoned jacket with a diapered hem, a floral collar, seated cross-legged, holding his left leg with his left arm, pulling a thorn out of his left foot with his right hand, on scrolled square closed quadrupod stool, on bevelled hexagonal marbled base (restored to neck and to the brim to the hat), marked CK above 4 for de Dissel , circa 1720

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A DUTCH DELFT BLUE AND WHITE FIGURE OF A THORNDRAWER (il Spinario), naturalistically modelled in relief with a young boy wearing a hat, a buttoned jacket with a diapered hem, a floral collar, seated cross-legged, holding his left leg with his left arm, pulling a thorn out of his left foot with his right hand, on scrolled square closed quadrupod stool, on bevelled hexagonal marbled base (restored to neck and to the brim to the hat), marked CK above 4 for de Dissel , circa 1720
22 cm high

Lot Essay

Cf H.P. Fourest, Delftware, p. 169 ill. 168 for another unusual figure inspired by the Vatican Il Spinario in the musées royaux d'art et d'histoire, Brussels, Belgium

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