A rare matched pair of Worcester flower pots c.1768-70

A rare matched pair of Worcester flower pots c.1768-70, of flared bucket form with two moulded bands, the everted rim with ovolu moulding highlighted in puce and gilt, the exteriors painted with polychrome flower sprays, one incised 82 to the base, a crack to one, 5.5cm high. (2)

Cf. H Rissik Marshall, pl.20, no.383 for a similar pair with floral tops, now in the Ashmolean Museum. Such pots are believed to have been modelled by John Toulouse, who may have brought the shape with him when he moved from Bow in the late 1760s.