A Naples (Real Fabbrica Ferdinandea) group of a fashionable couple, modelled by F. Tagliolini, circa 1795

each finely dressed and with elaborate high hat, the gentleman seated on rockwork turning and leaning away from his companion, who stands anxiously restraining him with her right hand,  on a grassy rockwork base

A few extended firing cracks, some flaking of black enamel
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For a biscuit group of the same model see A. Caròla –Perrotti, op. cit., Naples, 1986, n.425, p.483. For a similar model, see G. Morazzoni, J. Levy, op. cit., Milan, 1960, vol.II, pl. 379