probably modelled by Johann Friedrich Eberlein (1696-1749), one as a Friesian sailor, the mustachioed figure with arms akimbo and wearing a grey conical hat and pink doublet, one as a female vendor in broad rimmed hat and yellow cape balancing an empty flat basket on her hip, and one as a tradesman at rest smoking a pipe, standing with his other hand behind his back, wearing a narrow-brimmed grey hat, a gilt-buttoned blue coat and white apron, the latter probably from a series of Russian genre figures, all on circular flower encrusted naturalistic bases, the first two with underglaze blue crossed swords mark to rear base, tallest 9.5cm high

See another miniature Friesian sailor sold in these rooms, 23 November 2016, lot 10 and another tradesman figure sold Christie's, 5 December 1994, lot 155