A Bow figure of Matrimony

A Bow figure, emblematic of Matrimony, in the white, the young woman standing, wearing a wide-brimmed hat, and holding a birdcage, a putti mask fountain to her right, and a recumbent lamb to her left, the scroll moulded base applied with flowers and leaves, 9 1/4" high, circa 1753, no mark 

Provenance; American Private Collection

See Peter Bradshaw, Bow Porcelain Figures, page 78, figure 46, for a similar figure, with the companion figure of Liberty 

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