A pair of pearlware figures of Venus and Bacchus, in the white with traces of gilding, modelled standing, Venus loosely draped, a dove perched on one hand, Bacchus draped in a leopard-skin, one hand raised to hold a bunch of grapes, a goblet in the other hand, both above flower-encrusted mounds on square-section bases, impressed 56 and 57, circa 1780 -- 8¾in. high (2)

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A pair of pearlware figures of Venus and Bacchus, in the white with traces of gilding, modelled standing, Venus loosely draped, a dove perched on one hand, Bacchus draped in a leopard-skin, one hand raised to hold a bunch of grapes, a goblet in the other hand, both above flower-encrusted mounds on square-section bases, impressed 56 and 57, circa 1780 -- 8¾in. high (2)

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