A pair of Bow figures

A pair of Bow figures of a young man and woman, emblematic of Liberty and Matrimony, each standing, he holding a birds nest, and she holding a bird cage, and decorated in coloured enamels, on flower and leaf applied mound base, he with a birds nest containing three eggs at his feet, 7 1/4" high, circa 1765, no marks

See Peter Bradshaw, Bow Porcelain Figures, page 151, figure 156, for a figure of Matrimony 

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