A MEISSEN FIGURE OF A BALLAD-SELLER from the Cries of London series, modelled by P. Reinicke, in yellow hat, light-brown coat with gilt buttons, grey breeches and yellow shoes with blue bows, standing turned to his left with a stick in his right hand and a ballad sticking out of his pocket, before a tree-stump on a scroll-moulded mound base applied with flowers and foliage (both wrists broken and restored, one side of hat brim restored, tip of left index finger and top of cane lacking, cane repaired at base), blue crossed swords mark at back, circa 1750

细节

A MEISSEN FIGURE OF A BALLAD-SELLER from the Cries of London series, modelled by P. Reinicke, in yellow hat, light-brown coat with gilt buttons, grey breeches and yellow shoes with blue bows, standing turned to his left with a stick in his right hand and a ballad sticking out of his pocket, before a tree-stump on a scroll-moulded mound base applied with flowers and foliage (both wrists broken and restored, one side of hat brim restored, tip of left index finger and top of cane lacking, cane repaired at base), blue crossed swords mark at back, circa 1750
12.5cm. high

拍品专文

Cf. Len and Yvonne Adams, Meissen Portrait Figures, p. 127, taken from an engraving by Pierce Tempest from a drawing by Marcellus Laroon