A very rare pair of Chelsea figures a Prince and Queen, circa 1755 After the Meissen originals, he standing wearing a turban and long pale yellow robe sprigged with flowers, a quiver of arrows and a bow strapped to his back, his left hand raised and his right on his hip, she wearing a feathered headdress, floral robes and a pale yellow cape lined in pink, upon low mound bases applied with flowers and leaves, 19.5cm and 20cm high, red anchor marks (2) Footnotes: Provenance With James A Lewis and Son, New York Also sometimes known as the Abyssinian Archer and companion, these figures correspond to 'Two very fine black figures of an Indian prince and a queen' in the 1755 and 1765 Chelsea sale catalogues. The Chelsea versions are after the Meissen originals modelled by P Reinicke, although the prince is a mirror image of the prototype which sets the pair apart from copies of these figures by other English factories. A similar pair of figures is illustrated by F Severne Mackenna, Chelsea Porcelain: The Red Anchor Wares (1951), pl.51, fig.101 and another is in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (inv. nos.1973.649 and 1973.650). A pair of Derby version of these figures was sold by Bonhams on 10 December 2008, lot 202. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing