A fine pair of William Cookworthy, Plymouth figures, circa 1768-70A fine pair of William Cookworthy, Plymouth figures, circa 1768-70Of a lady and gentleman gardener, both figures smartly dressed with aprons over their work clothes and each holding a basket, his full of cherries, hers with flowers picked from the elaborate bocage which forms an arbour behind her, their rococo bases with shell and scroll moulding and further applied flowers, 27cm and 28cm high, male figure impressed TO on the reverse for the modeller John Toulouse (2)A pair of the same models in white porcelain, but somewhat misfired, is in the Victoria and Albert Museum and these are discussed by J V G Mallett, Cookworthy's first Bristol factory of 1765, ECC Trans, Vol.9, Pt.2 (1974), pl.118. Part of the Schreiber collection, it is possible that Lady Charlotte Schreiber acquired them directly from descendants of Cookworthy himself. Another pair, also in white is illustrated by William King, English Porcelain Figures of the Eighteenth Century (1925), fig.63. A pair of coloured examples is illustrated by F Severne Mackenna, Cookworthy's Plymouth and Bristol Porcelain (1946), pl.48, fig.84B, while a further coloured pair is also in the Schreiber Collection catalogue (1928), pl.76, fig.704.