A PAIR OF FIGURES OF JAPANESE JUGGLERS, the acrobatic young men wearing bronze and pink robes enriched with gilt stripes and brocade patterns, one seated supported on his elbow holding a flared stick moulded with bronze and gilt ruyi lappets, balancing four globular jars on a circular plate, the other similarly modelled crouching on his side, on oval bases similarly moulded with ruyi lappets (one restored, wear to gilding), impressed and purple printed marks, one with green printed mark, model numbers 543, date codes for 1878