A GILTMETAL-MOUNTED SÈVRES-PATTERN DARK-BLUE-GROUND SLENDER TAPERING OVIFORM VASE AND COVER painted in a soft palette with a continuous scene of a maiden wearing flowing pink drapery accompanied by two cherubs in an Arcadian landscape, the reverse with a cherub swinging from a blossoming tree, the waisted neck, cover and spreading stem enriched in gilding with arabesques of foliage-scrolls, mounted with a pine-cone finial, two loop handles with female mask terminals, leaves at the junction of the stem and lower body and on a beaded shaped square base, indistinct signature, the cover with imitation blue interlaced L mark, late 19th Century