A rare Meissen 'Cryes of London' figure of a ballad seller circa 1754

probably modelled by J.J. Kändler, wearing a pale-yellow hat with purple ribbon, green-lined purple jacket with gilt buttons, purple breeches and yellow shoes with purple ribbons, the scroll-moulded base edged ingilding and applied with leaves and flowers

Also known as Roger Teasdale, this figure is based upon an engraving by Pierce Tempest after Marcellus Laroon the Elder, "A Merry new Song", published in London in 1711, which depicts the ballad seller together with the female companion figure, known as Mrs Parker. See Yvonne Adams, Meissen Figures 1730-1775, p.41, for another examples of this rare figure, together with the source engraving.