A rare Dutch Delft polychrome figure of a thorndrawer

1707-1725, MARKED FOR JAN GAAL AT DE TWEE SCHEEPJES

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A rare Dutch Delft polychrome figure of a thorndrawer
1707-1725, marked for Jan Gaal at de Twee Scheepjes
Inspired by the Spinario, naturalistically modelled in relief as a young gentleman with blue hair, wearing a green jacket with yellow buttons, drawing a thorn from his right foot, his funny nude "behind" seated on a square quadrupod seat decorated with four floral panels and on a hexagonal bevelled plinth adorned with scrollwork
21cm. high

Provenance

Collection Weinberg, Paris

Lot Essay

c.f. H.P. Fourest, Delftware, p. 169 for a similar figure in the Evenepoel Collection, Musées royaux d'Art et d'Histoire, Brussels
The Spinario is an antique bronze figure of a thorndrawer in the Palazzo dei Conservatori, Rome. Italian sculptors of the 15th and 16th Centuries often were inspired by this pose.
There is a blue and white thorndrawer in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
See illustration

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