A PAIR OF DERBY FIGURES OF A YOUTH AND COMPANION seated in high-backed chairs painted with pale-blue and gilt oiel-de-perdrix, he holding an open book and his companion a shuttle and with a bag on her lap, their clothes painted in bright colours and enriched in gilding, on pierced scroll-moulded circular bases enriched in gilding and his applied with flowers (his right hand and right ankle restored, slight flaking to green enamel), incised No. 314 marks, Robt. Bloor & Co., circa 1830