A PAIR OF FIGURES OF MAIDENS EMBLEMATIC OF SPRING AND SUMMER, modelled by James Hadley both wearing turquoise robes with terracotta flashtones, the former standing beside a harp and holding a captive bird, her dressed hair secured by a band adorned with flowers and wearing a sash, the latter with a quiver of arrows, holding a goblet and standing beside a basket of grapes, her hair wreathed with vine, the details painted in bronze and gilding, on shaped-rectangular purple bases edged in bronze enamel, violet and gilding (Spring with restored back left corner of base, Autumn with restored goblet, minor wear to gilding), impressed marks, model numbers 2/33 and 2/34, circa 1870

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A PAIR OF FIGURES OF MAIDENS EMBLEMATIC OF SPRING AND SUMMER, modelled by James Hadley both wearing turquoise robes with terracotta flashtones, the former standing beside a harp and holding a captive bird, her dressed hair secured by a band adorned with flowers and wearing a sash, the latter with a quiver of arrows, holding a goblet and standing beside a basket of grapes, her hair wreathed with vine, the details painted in bronze and gilding, on shaped-rectangular purple bases edged in bronze enamel, violet and gilding (Spring with restored back left corner of base, Autumn with restored goblet, minor wear to gilding), impressed marks, model numbers 2/33 and 2/34, circa 1870
19½in. (49.5cm.) high (2)

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Cf. Sandon, 1973, pl. 11 for a similar pair painted by Eduard Béjot of Paris