A pair of Sèvres vases painted by E. Hallion with continuous scenes of peasants at various rural pursuits, including sharpening scythes, gathering sheaves, herding goats and cattle, keeping bees and making hay all within terracotta and gilt-ground bands suspending trophies from ramshead terminals all reserved on a pale green stippled-ground (slight wear), green and brown printed marks, 19th Century -- 10¾in. high

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A pair of Sèvres vases painted by E. Hallion with continuous scenes of peasants at various rural pursuits, including sharpening scythes, gathering sheaves, herding goats and cattle, keeping bees and making hay all within terracotta and gilt-ground bands suspending trophies from ramshead terminals all reserved on a pale green stippled-ground (slight wear), green and brown printed marks, 19th Century -- 10¾in. high

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