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A PARIS GOLD-GROUND TWO-HANDLED VASE
EARLY TO MID 19TH CENTURY
Of elongated baluster form with flaring trumpet neck, the join of the neck to the body and shoulder edged in white beads, flanked by biscuit winged female handles and painted in colours with a mythological scene of a putto being lulled to sleep by a nymph playing the lyre, the gilt surround inscribed Il S'endort au doux Son de la Lyre, and chased with trophies and scrolling foliage, raised on socle foot, gilding worn, chips to body
20¾in. (52.7cm) high
EARLY TO MID 19TH CENTURY
Of elongated baluster form with flaring trumpet neck, the join of the neck to the body and shoulder edged in white beads, flanked by biscuit winged female handles and painted in colours with a mythological scene of a putto being lulled to sleep by a nymph playing the lyre, the gilt surround inscribed Il S'endort au doux Son de la Lyre, and chased with trophies and scrolling foliage, raised on socle foot, gilding worn, chips to body
20¾in. (52.7cm) high