THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN
A GILT-METAL-MOUNTED SÈVRES-PATTERN VASE AND COVER, the dark-blue ground painted by E. Colliot with a pastoral scene of a young man and two girls, one with a nest of doves on her lap and with a bird-cage beside them, within a gilt diaper, flower and foliate-scroll cartouche, the cover and stem enriched with gilt flowers, foliate-scrolls and trellis-pattern, mounted with a pinecone finial, two winged female-caryatid handles with scroll supports, the rim with a pierced gallery of flowers on sinuous undulating stems, the foot cast with a laurel-wreath and on a footed square plinth, cover with imitation blue interlaced L and iron-red France mark, late 19th Century 28¾in. (73cm.) high
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A GILT-METAL-MOUNTED SÈVRES-PATTERN VASE AND COVER, the dark-blue ground painted by E. Colliot with a pastoral scene of a young man and two girls, one with a nest of doves on her lap and with a bird-cage beside them, within a gilt diaper, flower and foliate-scroll cartouche, the cover and stem enriched with gilt flowers, foliate-scrolls and trellis-pattern, mounted with a pinecone finial, two winged female-caryatid handles with scroll supports, the rim with a pierced gallery of flowers on sinuous undulating stems, the foot cast with a laurel-wreath and on a footed square plinth, cover with imitation blue interlaced L and iron-red France mark, late 19th Century 28¾in. (73cm.) high