The seated figures are emblematic of the spring and summer seasons. The figure of spring is closely related to a figure appearing on an ormolu-mounted clock at the château de Wilhelmstal, Hessen. Children bearing flowers, corn-sheaf and sickle, accompany the polychromed bouquets on the vase, and are re-iterated in the serpentine and acanthus scrolled plinth with its rustic balustrade. The latter recalls the picturesque architecture illustrated in Jacques de Lajoue's 4e Livre de Morceaux d'Architecture (see: J. Thullier, Lajoue et l'Art Rocaille, Paris, 1982, fig. 418).
The overall composition also recalls the celebrated vase with bouquets manufactured at Vincennes in 1748 and presented to Augustus III, Elector of Saxony and King of Poland (see: S. Eriksen and G. Bellaigue, Sèvres Porcelain, London, 1987, pp. 190-1)