A GILT-METAL-MOUNTED SÈVRES-PATTERN DARK-BLUE-GROUND TAPERING OVIFORM VASE AND DOMED COVER painted with lovers wearing 18th Century-style rustic dress beside a waterfall, within a seeded gilt palm-frond and foliate-scroll cartouche, the reverse with an extensive country landscape, mounted in metal with a fruit finial, two scroll handles suspending laurel-wreaths and on beaded supports terminating in a band of foliage encircling the lower body, on a metal foot (rim chip to cover), circa 1880

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A GILT-METAL-MOUNTED SÈVRES-PATTERN DARK-BLUE-GROUND TAPERING OVIFORM VASE AND DOMED COVER painted with lovers wearing 18th Century-style rustic dress beside a waterfall, within a seeded gilt palm-frond and foliate-scroll cartouche, the reverse with an extensive country landscape, mounted in metal with a fruit finial, two scroll handles suspending laurel-wreaths and on beaded supports terminating in a band of foliage encircling the lower body, on a metal foot (rim chip to cover), circa 1880
23½in. (59.5cm.) high

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