A GILT-METAL-MOUNTED SÈVRES-PATTERN CREAM-GROUND TAPERING OVIFORM LARGE VASE AND DOMED COVER painted by Maxant in a soft palette with a smiling maiden lying on a grassy bank strewn with flowers, attended by playful cherubs caught in a sunbeam issuing from storm-clouds, another flying overhead and tugging at her pink drapery, the reverse with two cherubs embracing on rocks before trees in a continuous landscape, below a flared neck richly gilt with foliage-scrolls and diaper-pattern, the spreading stem and cover similarly decorated, mounted with a pinecone finial, a metal rim, a laurel-wreath at the shoulder, two double foliage-sroll handles with seated putti supported on ribbed columns cast with acanthus terminating in a wreath of leaves encircling the lower body, on a beaded shaped-square base (wear to gilding, crazing to glaze, minute chip to rim of cover), signed, the cover with imitation blue interlaed L mark and S...., circa 1900