Lot Essay
Cf. Peter Bradshaw, 18th Century English Porcelain Figures 1745-1795, London, 1981, p. 298, footnote H63; also George Savage, Eighteenth Century English Porcelain, Bungay, 1952, plate 63.
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CIRCA 1765
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A PAIR OF BOW FIGURES EMBLEMATIC OF 'LIBERTY' AND 'MATRIMONY'
Circa 1765
Modelled as a gallant and companion, he wearing a yellow-lined dark puce jacket and puce flowered breeches, holding a nest with three fledglings, a nest of eggs at his feet, she wearing a laced blue bodice and dark-puce lined yellow over-skirt and striped underskirt and holding a bird cage, square holes at the back of both tree stumps
7in. (17.8cm.) high (2)
Circa 1765
Modelled as a gallant and companion, he wearing a yellow-lined dark puce jacket and puce flowered breeches, holding a nest with three fledglings, a nest of eggs at his feet, she wearing a laced blue bodice and dark-puce lined yellow over-skirt and striped underskirt and holding a bird cage, square holes at the back of both tree stumps
7in. (17.8cm.) high (2)