A PAIR OF ST PETERSBURG DEEP-CLARET-GROUND TAPERING OVIFORM VASES painted with portraits of young shepherds, wearing ribboned hats, green and blue jackets, orange waistcoats and sheepskin jerkins, one holding a stick in an extensive barren landscape, the other playing a pipe before an extensive landscape of fields, within pale-blue oval cartouches enriched with gilt chain-pattern and with strapwork at the top and bottom, the everted rims and spreading circular feet with similar bands (covers lacking, slight wear to gilding and scratches to enamels, one with minute chip to base), green printed marks, circa 1880