 The soft paste used did not allow as much sharp definition or as thin elements as German hard-paste, and the modellers had to adapt their style accordingly.The pottery-seller illustrated, adapting a print after a drawing by Annibale Carracci, is one of a series described in the factory records as "figure che rappresentano poveri" ("figures of poor people"), although unlike later so-called "Capodimonte" figures, their clothing is neat and clean.Otherwise such subjects of vendors were called "la voci di Napooli" (street-cries of Naples).