A PAIR OF FRENCH MAZARINE-BLUE-GROUND TWO-HANDLED VASES AND COVERS of compressed urn shape, the necks moulded with white flutes enriched with gilt husks below rimS pierced with vitruvian scrolls and covers moulded with foliage, the angular handles moulded with female masks, the bodies painted in ciselé gilding with a boy and a girl seated in a shrubby landscape vignette within a shaped rectangular cartouche flanked by flowers, the reverses with flowers, on flared stems and rectangular bases (restoration to covers and to one handle, chip to each stem and to one shoulder, wear to gilding), imitation blue interlaced L marks, circa 1860