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A GERMAN ARMORIAL 'SCHNEEBALLEN' TWO-HANDLED VASE AND COVER
LATE 19TH CENTURY, SIGNED SAMEE
Of baluster form encrusted with mayflower blossoms, the finial as a seated figure of Spring with a basket of flowers in her lap, similar figures on the shoulder above branch handles terminating in encrusted flowering vines, parrokeets perched at the bottom of each branch, painted with a nymph and winged putti singing within a cartouche, figures of putti holding flower garlands flanking the crowned marriage wappen below, the back painted with flowers, one head restuck, putto at left's right hand and a section of the garland missing, chips to flowers and leaves
31in. (78.7cm.) high
LATE 19TH CENTURY, SIGNED SAMEE
Of baluster form encrusted with mayflower blossoms, the finial as a seated figure of Spring with a basket of flowers in her lap, similar figures on the shoulder above branch handles terminating in encrusted flowering vines, parrokeets perched at the bottom of each branch, painted with a nymph and winged putti singing within a cartouche, figures of putti holding flower garlands flanking the crowned marriage wappen below, the back painted with flowers, one head restuck, putto at left's right hand and a section of the garland missing, chips to flowers and leaves
31in. (78.7cm.) high