A PAIR OF GILT-METAL-MOUNTED SÈVRES-PATTERN DARK-BLUE-GROUND VASES AND COVERS, each painted by E. Roy in a soft palette with a maiden seated wearing a diaphanous robe, flanked by playful cherubs in verdant landscapes, one vase with a cherub firing an arrow, another caressing her shoulder, a third offering flowers, the other vase with a cherub flying to kiss the maiden, another offering flowers, a third with an arrow, the scenes forming a continuous frieze and painted on the reverses with palaces, statuary and trees in lakescapes, the flared necks and feet moulded with flutes enriched in gilding, mounted in metal with pinecone finials, upturned scroll handles suspending wreaths of fruit and laurel, beaded supports terminating in bands of leaves encircling the lower bodies and on shaped-square bases cast with bands of laurel-wreaths (minor glaze cracks), imitation blue interlaced L marks, circa 1880