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Cf. Régine de Plinval de Guillebon, Faïence et Poreclaine de Paris XVIIIe - XIXe Siècles, Paris, 1995 figs. 310 and 311
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A PAIR OF PARIS PINK-LUSTRE AND BISCUIT TWO-HANDLED VASES
CIRCA 1820
Each of baluster form, the handles formed as winged putti seated on the shoulder and suspending a circular biscuit flower garland, their feet resting on the mouths of torches moulded down the side, the gilt neck finely chased with a grape-vine in a striated ground centering lion-mask roundels within wreaths, the pink lustre body gilt with winged griffins centering a harp, the lower body with overlapping leaves, on gilt trumpet foot and further black square base, one putto's wing restored, minor chips to garland and wear to gilding (2)
CIRCA 1820
Each of baluster form, the handles formed as winged putti seated on the shoulder and suspending a circular biscuit flower garland, their feet resting on the mouths of torches moulded down the side, the gilt neck finely chased with a grape-vine in a striated ground centering lion-mask roundels within wreaths, the pink lustre body gilt with winged griffins centering a harp, the lower body with overlapping leaves, on gilt trumpet foot and further black square base, one putto's wing restored, minor chips to garland and wear to gilding (2)