A pair of Chelsea large figures of a shepherd and shepherdess

A pair of Chelsea large figures of a shepherd and shepherdess, each standing, he wearing a plumed hat, yellow cloak, puce waistcoat and turquoise trousers, and flanked by two dogs, bagpipes at his feet, and she with flowers in her hair, and wearing a flower patterned cloak, and yellow skirt, holding a lamb in her left hand, a sheep at her feet, before floral bocage, on flower and leaf applied scroll and shell moulded base, picked out in turquoise and gilt, 11 1/2" high, circa 1765, gold anchor marks

See Yvonne Hackenbroch, Chelsea and Other English Porcelain in the Irwin Untermyer Collection, plate 41, for another pair of these figures 

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