A rare pair of Chelsea pot pourri vases and covers c.1760, painted with heart-shaped panels of lovers after François Boucher, seated in garden settings, the reverses with panels of flowers, reserved on a blue ground with gilded moths and other flying insects, the sides applied with flowering branches beneath reticulated necks and covers, gold anchor marks, some damages and repairs, 22.5cm. (4)Cf. Victoria & Albert Museum, Accession No. 828-1882 for a similar vase from the John Jones collection, and Mallet, J.V.G., Chelsea Gold Anchor Vases, I: The Forms, English Ceramic Circle Transactions, Vol.17, Part 1, 1999, p. 149. fig. 40.