A PAIR OF DERBY FIGURES OF A YOUTH AND A GIRL, she holding a hen and he holding a struggling cockerel, their brightly-coloured clothes enriched in gilding, standing before tree-stumps applied with yellow-centred blue flowers and foliage, the circular bases moulded with scrolls and enriched in turquoise, green and with gilding, mounted as gilt-metal candelabra with pierced foliage-scroll bases, the branches applied with Continental coloured porcelain flowers and with vase-shaped candle-nozzles and foliate wax-pans (both with repairs to hats and with chips to flowers and foliage, some damage to porcelain flowers), the figures Wm. Duesbury & Co., circa 1765, the mounts and flowers 18th century

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A PAIR OF DERBY FIGURES OF A YOUTH AND A GIRL, she holding a hen and he holding a struggling cockerel, their brightly-coloured clothes enriched in gilding, standing before tree-stumps applied with yellow-centred blue flowers and foliage, the circular bases moulded with scrolls and enriched in turquoise, green and with gilding, mounted as gilt-metal candelabra with pierced foliage-scroll bases, the branches applied with Continental coloured porcelain flowers and with vase-shaped candle-nozzles and foliate wax-pans (both with repairs to hats and with chips to flowers and foliage, some damage to porcelain flowers), the figures Wm. Duesbury & Co., circa 1765, the mounts and flowers 18th century
31cm. high overall (2)

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Cf. Dennis G. Rice, op. cit., p. 107, no. 55

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