A GILT-METAL-MOUNTED SÈVRES-PATTERN BLEU CELESTE VASE AND DOMED COVER with an acorn finial, the slender tapering oviform body painted by E. Parrot with 18th Century lovers in a wooded lake scene, she reading a letter from her companion, the reverse with a bridge spanning the backwater of a lake in a shrubby mountainous landscape, each scene outlined with gilt scrolls and flanked by scroll cartouches enclosing diaper and seeded patterns, between bands of gilt feuilles-de-choux, the dark-blue flared neck and stem enriched in gilding, mounted with a gadrooned band at the shoulder, leaves encircling the lower part and on a shaped-square base (restoration to cover), artist's signature, late 19th Century