A MEISSEN FIGURE OF A BALLAD-SELLER modelled by P. Reinicke from the Cries of London series, in a pale-yellow hat, white scarf, yellow dress and puce-flowered apron, long gloves and red shoes, standing holding a ballad on a scroll-moulded mound base enriched with gilding and applied with flowers and leaves (restoration to hat and part of brim lacking, some restoration to dress and apron), circa 1750

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A MEISSEN FIGURE OF A BALLAD-SELLER modelled by P. Reinicke from the Cries of London series, in a pale-yellow hat, white scarf, yellow dress and puce-flowered apron, long gloves and red shoes, standing holding a ballad on a scroll-moulded mound base enriched with gilding and applied with flowers and leaves (restoration to hat and part of brim lacking, some restoration to dress and apron), circa 1750
12cm. high

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Cf. Len and Yvonne Adams, op. cit., p. 127, derived from an etching by Pierce Tempest after a drawing by Marcellus Laroon

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