A PAIR OF FRENCH MATTE BLUE-GROUND VASES

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A PAIR OF FRENCH MATTE BLUE-GROUND VASES
LATE 19TH CENTURY, HENRI ARDANT & CIE., LIMOGES

The ovoid bowls with everted lips and painted in colours with nymphs and putti in flight, shooting arrows at each other, holding floral garlands and floating above extensive landscape, within matte blue bands gilt with flowering branches and raised on a circular pedestal with three seated painted biscuit putti and gilt-enriched tripartite base, bases need re-pinning, some wear to gilding on bases
20in. (50.8cm.) high (4)