A pair of Capodimonte or Buen Retiro white figures of a boy and girl, modelled by G. Gricci, 1758-1765

the boy with right arm raised and riding on the back of a tortoise, his left hand holding a stick (now lacking), his right hand probably originally holding a set of reins (now lacking), the girl riding on the back of a snail, a stick resting between her shoulder and her upraised right hand, the girl with fleur-de-lys mark in underglaze blue

With Armin Allen, London, 1991

One missing his whip and reins, chips to flowers, small firing cracks. The other misisng a part of his reins, his whip broken and re-glued over his shoulder, mising flowers and minor firing crack both with tiny edge chips
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For a figure riding a tortoise see A. Caròla-Perrotti, op. cit. Naples, 1986, n.166, p. 224.