A pair of Derby figures

A pair of Derby figures of Man with Flageolet and Lady Playing a Triangle, each standing, and decorated in coloured enamels, before a tree-stump applied with flowers and leaves, the f'ower and leaf applied scroll moulded mound base picked out in turquoise and gilt, 10 1/4" high, circa 1765, patch marks

See Peter Bradshaw, Derby Porcelain Figures, page 96, figure 73, for the male figure. A pair of figures of this model is in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge 

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