A PAIR OF GILTMETAL-MOUNTED SÈVRES-PATTERN DARK-BLUE-GROUND VASES AND COVERS painted by C. Velly in a pastel palette with 18th Century figures at artistic pursuits in misty gardens, one with a lady seated having her portrait painted by a young man, with a lady holding the brushes and palette, the other with a lady playing the lute observed by admiring attendants, the reverses with châteaux in country landscapes, each within a seeded gilt cartouche of scrolling foliage, the covers, trumpet necks and spreading bases with broad white borders painted with scrolls and shells in pastel colours and gilt, mounted with pine-cone finials, two scroll handles on ribbed supports suspending leaf-garlands, with stiff acanthus at the lower bodies and on shaped square bases (slight wear to gilding, two minute chips to flange of one cover), signed, late 19th Century