A PAIR OF ROYAL CROWN DERBY 'JEWELLED' TWO-HANDLED VASES AND COVERS of inverted pear shape, the dark-blue grounds painted by Desiré Leroy with bouquets and swags within shaped white cartouches enriched with raised gilt scrolls and with turquoise 'jewels' on green bands, the reverses with chased gilt pendant garlands and scrolls above raised gilt acanthus around the lower bodies, the covers with white oval medallions enclosing pink roses within rich gilt and 'jewelled' cartouches, on oval spreading bases with rich gilding (slight re-gilding to one handle), signed, purple printed marks, pattern numbers 7461/1326, circa 1900

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A PAIR OF ROYAL CROWN DERBY 'JEWELLED' TWO-HANDLED VASES AND COVERS of inverted pear shape, the dark-blue grounds painted by Desiré Leroy with bouquets and swags within shaped white cartouches enriched with raised gilt scrolls and with turquoise 'jewels' on green bands, the reverses with chased gilt pendant garlands and scrolls above raised gilt acanthus around the lower bodies, the covers with white oval medallions enclosing pink roses within rich gilt and 'jewelled' cartouches, on oval spreading bases with rich gilding (slight re-gilding to one handle), signed, purple printed marks, pattern numbers 7461/1326, circa 1900
5¾in. (14.5cm.) high (2)

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Desiré Leroy (b. France 1840, d. 1908) trained from the age of eleven at Sèvres, emigrating in 1874 to England, where he joined the Minton factory. He moved to Derby as Art Director in 1890, working there until 1907. He specialised in painting flowers and fruit in small reserves, and in white enamel painting in the manner of pâte-sur-pâte decoration