A CHELSEA GROUP OF LOVERS modelled as a woman in yellow hat, white shawl, puce jacket and flowered skirt, seated holding a nest containing two doves on her lap, her companion kneeling at her side, in black cap, green jacket and yellow breeches, a goat's skin satchel slung from his shoulder, the shaped rockwork base applied with flowers (his right arm and her right fingers lacking, chips to her hat, hem of his jacket and to extremities), circa 1756, the decoration perhaps slightly later