A PAIR OF BERLIN CLARET-GROUND POT-POURRI VASES AND PIERCED COVERS with pinecone finials and two goats' mask handles, the tapering ovoid bodies painted with figures in 18th Century-style dress standing beside statuary in parkland, with country houses and distant mountains, the scenes flanked by relief-moulded leafy branches tied with turquoise ribbon, the grounds enriched with scale-pattern and gilt stars and moulded with shallow flutes, on square bases enriched with gilt scrolls (restoration to horns and moulded leaves, chip to one horn), blue sceptre marks, circa 1880

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A PAIR OF BERLIN CLARET-GROUND POT-POURRI VASES AND PIERCED COVERS with pinecone finials and two goats' mask handles, the tapering ovoid bodies painted with figures in 18th Century-style dress standing beside statuary in parkland, with country houses and distant mountains, the scenes flanked by relief-moulded leafy branches tied with turquoise ribbon, the grounds enriched with scale-pattern and gilt stars and moulded with shallow flutes, on square bases enriched with gilt scrolls (restoration to horns and moulded leaves, chip to one horn), blue sceptre marks, circa 1880
13¾in. (35cm.) high (2)

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