Two Veneto white-glazed porcelain figure groups, late 18th century, probably Nove

modelled as young couples, one pair in conversation wearing fashionable attire, the other as farmhands holding poultry and grapes, upon rockwork mounds on drum bases moulded with swags suspended from masks, rams and portrait heads,

Figure group in left of catalogue illustration, male figure with section of hat brim lacking, right thumb and index finger chipped, female figure with right index finger chipped. Figure group in right of illustration, male figure with left smallest finger chipped, the female figure with right fingers restored. Both groups with chips to extremities.
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