A pair of Derby 'Pale Family' candlesticks

A pair of Derby 'Pale Family' candlestick figures, in the form of a young man and woman, he playing a pipe, and each decorated in coloured enamels, before a flower and leaf applied tree-stump, which supports a leaf moulded sconce, on flower and leaf applied scroll moulded base, picked out in turquoise and puce, 9 5/8" high, circa 1756-58, patch marks

See Dennis G Rice, Derby Porcelain, page 101, figure 51 for a similar pair 

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