Featured Hors D’Oeuvres Faience Dishes

I found these faience dishes at a car boot sale today . They measure about 11cm long and 15cm at the widest.

They look to be half of a set that would have formed a circle.

They are very well handled painted and I wonder if anyone can identify their origin. I thought Dutch or northern French c1870-1900 when I spotted them but one scene has hills in the background which you don’t normally see on French and Dutch pieces.

Do the costumes point to any region?

All suggestions welcome.

 

In pic 5, the fellow holds in his right hand what appears to be a tapered wand with a string of oval beads attached tip an' tail to that wand. It ought to say something pertinent about region or other specific detail...I think?

 

Yes I thought that was a pointer.

 

Breton? Dutch? Peddlers at least, from the packs on their backs.