A rare pair of Bow candlestick groups

A rare pair of Bow candlestick groups, each in the form of the 'Dutch Dancers', standing in animated pose, and finely decorated in coloured enamels, before a flower and leaf applied tree, which supports a leaf moulded sconce picked out in puce and yellow, on rectangular flower and leaf applied base, with four scroll feet, picked out in puce, 10" high, circa 1762, pseudo Chelsea anchor mark to the reverse of one group in puce

See Peter Bradshaw, Bow Porcelain Figures, page 149, figure 151, for a pair of single figures of this model

The pseudo Chelsea anchor mark is very rare to find on Bow 

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