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A PAIR OF DRESDEN BOTTLE-SHAPED VASES AND COVERS with flower finials, the bodies painted with figures wearing 18th Century style dress in rural landscapes alternating with turquoise panels reserved with loose bouquets, the necks similarly painted with flowers within vertical turquoise panels, each cartouche outlined with a slender band of gilt scrolls, with a broader band of gilt scrolls and flowerheads at the shoulder and with gilt caillouté at the rims (one cover with rim chip and finial re-attached, minute chips to finials, slight wear to gilding), blue AR mongrams, circa 1890
19¼in. (49cm.) high (2)
19¼in. (49cm.) high (2)