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A SÈVRES STYLE ORMOLU-MOUNTED TURQUOISE-GROUND CENTERPIECE
LATE 19TH CENTURY
The oval basin painted with ladies and their suitors playing cards and flirting in a garden, reserved against the turquoise ground within an elaborate gilt rocaille flowering trellis cartouche, the back with mature flowers within a similar oval, each side mounted with bacchante hermes terminating in acanthus and linked by heavily fruiting vine scrolling along the rim, the whole raised on an elaborate pierced ormolu base--20 1/8in. (51.2cm.) high, 22¼in. (56.5cm.) wide
LATE 19TH CENTURY
The oval basin painted with ladies and their suitors playing cards and flirting in a garden, reserved against the turquoise ground within an elaborate gilt rocaille flowering trellis cartouche, the back with mature flowers within a similar oval, each side mounted with bacchante hermes terminating in acanthus and linked by heavily fruiting vine scrolling along the rim, the whole raised on an elaborate pierced ormolu base--20 1/8in. (51.2cm.) high, 22¼in. (56.5cm.) wide