Royal Doulton Figurine Old Lavender Seller HN1492

Old Lavender Seller (HN1492) was designed by Leslie Harradine and issued from 1932 to 1949, standing approximately 6 inches tall. She belongs to Harradine's celebrated series of London street vendors — the group that includes the Old Balloon Seller, the Flower Sellers' Children, and the Mask Seller, and which represents some of the most admired and persistently sought character work in the entire HN range.

The lavender seller was a familiar figure in the streets of English towns and cities well into the twentieth century — an old woman selling bunches of dried lavender from a basket, trading on the tradition of herbal remedies and fragrant strewing herbs that stretched back centuries. Harradine rendered her with the same unflinching sympathy he brought to all his street characters: a worn, working figure of real age and character, not prettified or romanticised, but observed and translated into ceramic with genuine feeling. The figure carries the basket of lavender that defines her trade and gives the piece its immediate storytelling clarity.

The 1932–1949 production window is entirely pre-war and wartime, making every example a piece of the pre-1950 Harradine era that specialists and the broader market consistently regard as the pinnacle of Doulton figure production. The Old Lavender Seller is less commonly encountered on today's market than the more famous street vendor subjects, which adds further appeal for collectors who know the range well.

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