A PAIR OF DERBY CANDLESTICK-FIGURES OF MERCURY AND VENUS WITH CUPID standing before flowering bocage, he wearing gilt-scale cuirass and green and iron-red skirt, with martial trophies behind and a cockerel at his feet, Venus scantily draped in a turquoise-lined robe painted with purple flowers clasping the running Cupid's right arm, the shaped and pierced scroll-moulded bases enriched in turquoise, puce and with gilding (Venus's right arm and Cupid's right arm and left hand repaired, restoration to her base, both with chips and damages to flowers and foliage, nozzles lacking), Wm. Duesbury & Co., circa 1765