Rare Pair of Large Derby Porcelain Bocage Candlestick Figures Liberty & Matrimony as Children

A very fine pair of Derby bocage figural candlesticks, a rare version of Liberty & Matrimony. A youth, as Liberty, stands against the bocage, holding on to a branch and leaning forwards, holding out a nest of chicks in his left hand, trying to encourage them to fledge and fly away. His female companion as Matrimony, gestures towards him with her right hand, inviting him to place the chicks in the open cage she has tucked under her left arm. Stood on scrolled bases with double candle sconces, the bocages are very finely detailed with clusters of different coloured blooms, each individually applied. The figures are dressed in simple peasant clothes, beautifully decorated in bright pastel enamels, with floral designs, and both with matching pattern to his jacket and her bodice of pink roses on a yellow ground. She wears a patterned ribbon in her hair, and his hat lies on the ground at his feet. Patch marks to base, c.1765-1770. Reference: Derby Porcelain Figures 1750-1848, DPIS, Shepherd, plates CA5 & CA6, catalogued as "rare". Also, Derby Porcelain by John Twitchett, plate 62. They are not mentioned in Derby Porcelain Figures b yBradshaw where only two versions of Liberty & Matrimony are discussed, a pair of standing adult figures, and a pair of reclining adult figures, sometimes with candle sconces.