Each modeled in hexagonal form with rocaille-form handles, painted front and back with pastoral scenes of amorous couples catching fish or love birds, gathering fruit or firing a tiny cannon, within gilt foliate surrounds and further gilt bands and garlands
8 in. (20.4 cm.) high

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A pair of Chelsea porcelain vases of the same color and form, but with Classical scenes in the reserves, can be found in the Untermyer Collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York (64.101.504a, b) and in Y. Hackenbroch, Chelsea and other English Porcelain, Pottery and Enamel in the Irwin Untermyer Collection, 1957, pp. 82-83, pl. 60. Vases of this description are known to have been owned by Horace Walpole at Strawberry Hill in 1774.