FOUR BOW FIGURES EMBLEMATIC OF THE CONTINENTS standing before flowering tree-stumps, Europe wearing a helmet and flanked by a shield and armour, America in feathered headdress and skirt beside a crocodile, Asia holding a vase and with one foot resting on a cap and Africa as a negro wearing elephant headdress before a recumbent lion, the clothes decorated in colours and enriched in gilding, on high waisted pierced square bases with canted angles enriched in green and puce, Asia with a gilt line (minor chips to extremities), iron-red anchor and dagger marks, circa 1770