A SET OF FOUR DERBY FIGURES OF CHILDREN EMBLEMATIC OF THE SEASONS after the models by Pierre Stephen, Spring as a youth holding a garland and with a water-bottle and satchel slung from his shoulder, Summer as a girl in décolleté dress holding a sheaf of corn, Autumn as a girl with a basket of grapes and a large fruit at her feet and Winter carrying a tied bundle of faggots on his shoulder, standing before tree-stumps, their clothes painted in pale colours and enriched with gilding, on circular bases enriched with gilt lines (Spring broken in two and repaired, all with minor chips to extremities), Wm Duesbury & Co., circa 1780