A pair of Chelsea models of Chinese figures

A pair of Chelsea models of Chinese figures, each seated beside an ovoid jar with pierced top, she with a ribbon in her hair, and wearing a yellow coat and patterned skirt, and he wearing a puce coat no patterned apron, and his right arm outstretched, on flower and leaf applied scroll moulded base, picked out in gilt,  7 3/4" high, circa 1762, gold anchor marks

Provenance; The Collection of a Gentleman 

See Frank Stoner, Chelsea, Bow and Derby Porcelain Figures, page 33, for a similar pair

See also Albert Amor, Chelsea Porcelain. a Private Collection, Part Two, October 2018, number 11, for a related pair, but the man wearing a pointed hat 

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