A MASSIVE SÈVRES STYLE ORMOLU-MOUNTED TURQUOISE-GROUND VASE AND COVER

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A MASSIVE SÈVRES STYLE ORMOLU-MOUNTED TURQUOISE-GROUND VASE AND COVER

Of ovi-form decorated with reserves depicting a maiden attending her toilette amidst a garden within polychrome scrolling foliage reversing to a scene depicting an amorous couple being adorned by Venus and cherubs in a palace setting beneath a waisted neck flanked by scrolled caryatid handles beneath a beaded rim and domed lid with fruiting finial, on a circular socle with berried-laurel trim, raised on a conforming plinth with foliate-cast feet
50in. (127cm.) high

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