A PAIR OF LARGE GILTMETAL-MOUNTED SÈVRES-PATTERN TAPERING OVIFORM VASES AND DOMED COVERS, the dark-red bodies painted by W. Gravey after Caspar Netscher with Musical Company and The Suitor's Visit within seeded gilt oval bands outlined with foliage-scrolls and diaper-pattern, the reverses with isolated buildings in mountainous lake-scapes within gilt palm-frond cartouches, the flared necks, covers and waisted stems richly gilt with foliage-scrolls and cartouches of diaper-pattern, mounted with pine-cone finials, gadrooned bands at the rims and shoulders, two cherub caryatid handles, leaves encircling the lower bodies and on shaped circular bases (covers fixed), signed, 20th Century

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A PAIR OF LARGE GILTMETAL-MOUNTED SÈVRES-PATTERN TAPERING OVIFORM VASES AND DOMED COVERS, the dark-red bodies painted by W. Gravey after Caspar Netscher with Musical Company and The Suitor's Visit within seeded gilt oval bands outlined with foliage-scrolls and diaper-pattern, the reverses with isolated buildings in mountainous lake-scapes within gilt palm-frond cartouches, the flared necks, covers and waisted stems richly gilt with foliage-scrolls and cartouches of diaper-pattern, mounted with pine-cone finials, gadrooned bands at the rims and shoulders, two cherub caryatid handles, leaves encircling the lower bodies and on shaped circular bases (covers fixed), signed, 20th Century
41¼in. and 41½in. (105cm. and 105.5cm.) high (2)

拍品專文

The original painting, 'Musical Company' of 1666 is in the Gamäldegalerie, Dresden. 'The Suitor's Visit', a copy of a painting by Gerard Ter Borch, is in the National Gallery of Art, Washington: the Andrew W. Mellon collection