A large pair of Derby figures of the Italian Farmers c.1765

A large pair of Derby figures of the Italian Farmers c.1765, he standing and holding a cockerel, his wife with a hen, each dressed in elaborately patterned costume and standing before tall flowering bocage, raised on scrolled bases picked out in turquoise and gilt, small restorations, 25.5cm. (2)

The Italian Farmers were so called because it was believed they were copied from Doccia originals. However, both the Doccia examples and the Derby derive from a model made at Meissen.