A Worcester blue ground vase and cover circa 1770-72

painted in Sevres style, probably by John Donaldson, with an allegory of Matrimony represented by a pair of putti with a dove and a cage, the reverse and cover with landscape panels,

There is a little minor rubbing to the gilding around the rim of the cover. There is a minor glaze chip to the footrim below the centre of the reserve with the putti. There is evidence of misfiring to the blue ground below the right handle.
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The subject derives from an engraving after Boucher.  For another vase by Donaldson, also painted after Boucher, see The Zorensky Collection, part II, sold Bonhams, 23rd February 2005, lot 174