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A PAIR OF LARGE GILTMETAL-MOUNTED 'JEWELLED' SÈVRES-PATTERN VASES AND COVERS with dark-blue grounds and slender tapering oviform bodies, painted by Sepin in the manner of Boucher with lovers attended by playful cherubs in gardens within chased gilt and 'jewelled' bands, the reverses with figures and buildings in rustic landscapes, the trumpet necks and spreading stems enriched with coloured 'jewels' and gilding, on fluted cylindrical plinths modelled with oval cartouches painted with a god and a goddess, mounted with two caryatid handles, flowers at the rims and on the fronts, bands of leaves at the lower bodies, swags of laurel on the plinths and on square bases with masks at the corners (both with two cracks to the lower bodies and one with cracks to plinth, one with a small hole drilled at the shoulder, hair cracks to covers, some 'jewels' lacking and wear to gilding), late 19th Century
47½in. (121cm.) high (2)
47½in. (121cm.) high (2)