A PAIR OF DERBY TWO-HANDLED VASES AND COVERS
A PAIR OF DERBY TWO-HANDLED VASES AND COVERS

CIRCA 1770

Details
A PAIR OF DERBY TWO-HANDLED VASES AND COVERS
Circa 1770
Each of inverted pear shape with hemispheric lower body and raised on a circular foot, the turquoise ground handles enriched in gilt, the domed cover with gilt acorn finial, painted in colours in the manner of J.B. Huet, one with a washerwoman, the other with a shepherdess, reserved within chased gilt bands, the reverse with a loose bouquet within a similar border
8in. (21cm.) high (2)
Provenance
Thelma Chrysler Foy, Parke-Bernet Galleries Inc., New York, 22 May 1959, lot 412 (as Svres porcelain, circa 1770)