A PAIR OF BOW PORCELAIN BIRDS IN BRANCHES CANDLESTICK GROUPS, CIRCA 1762

A PAIR OF BOW PORCELAIN BIRDS IN BRANCHES CANDLESTICK GROUPS, CIRCA 1762 each designed as boughs, one encrusted with flowers, the other fruit, and each featuring a bird upon a nest of chicks and another holding a berry in its beak, to naturalistic bases and each with metal leafy branches supporting decorative nozzles, each with impressed 'To' mark to base, attributed to John Toulouse or the repairer Tebo or Thiebaud. (2) 22cm high Purchased by the vendor in 1997 from David J. Thorn Antiques, Ceramics & Works of Art, Devon. Both with some losses to flowers and leaves, the fruiting example with one whole flower head deficient to the back of the base. The bird with berry to the floral encrusted example restored to tail and wings with later break and repair, possible other repairs to both.