Lot Essay
See John Twitchett, Derby Porcelain, 1980, fig. 146, pp. 134, 233, 245 for a similar pair of vases, also with repairer's mark for Isaac Farnesworth, the garlands suspended from fixed rings rather than bows. Farnsworth worked at the factory from the mid-1750's until his death in 1821, from 1780 as the foreman of the ornamental department.