Paris Town Crier Collection

Lot 4106 limit € 8.000

Meissen factory, swords underglaze blue, 1st choice, a total of 12 figures from the series "Cris de Paris/Paris town crier", depicting Parisian street vendors and craftsmen, including: town crier with liquorice water, town crier with poultry, town crier with drum and flute, cook am Hearth, town crier with pastries and lemonade, 2 town criers with flowers, town crier with carp, brush seller, town crier with lottery tickets, town crier with grapes and town crier with bouquets of flowers, each on a rocaille base with a rock layer, polychrome painted, gold equipped, some figures slightly rest. or best., H each approx. 15 cm, modeled after 1934. The series of Parisian market traders and small tradesmen, begun by JJ Kaendler around 1737 and continued by Peter Reinicke in 1753/54, depicts the small trades in a lively, albeit partly embellished form from the middle of the 18th century and thus provides an insight into the cultural history of street life at that time.