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A pair of Derby candlestick figures, of a seated bagpiper and a lady with a lute, attended by a hound or lamb respectively the piper in a puce jerkin, turquoise waistcoat and lavender breeches, his companion in a plumed head-dress, puce and gilt bodice and flowered skirt, both seated before a heavily flowered boage on puce edged gilt shell and scrolling open-work base, 24cm h, William Duesbury & Co, patch marks, c1780. Some old restoration, in particular to both sconces and with some typical losses to the bocage on the figure of the lady. The back scroll to the base has been re-built but both in otherwise overall good condition. Such restoration as there is, is old and discoloured; no "professional' restoration
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A pair of Derby candlestick figures, of a seated bagpiper and a lady with a lute, attended by a hound or lamb respectively the piper in a puce jerkin, turquoise waistcoat and lavender breeches, his companion in a plumed head-dress, puce and gilt bodice and flowered skirt, both seated before a heavily flowered boage on puce edged gilt shell and scrolling open-work base, 24cm h, William Duesbury & Co, patch marks, c1780. Some old restoration, in particular to both sconces and with some typical losses to the bocage on the figure of the lady. The back scroll to the base has been re-built but both in otherwise overall good condition. Such restoration as there is, is old and discoloured; no "professional' restoration
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