A pair of Rudolstadt blue-ground two-handled oviform vases, covers and square section bases, painted in colours with half length portraits of ladies wearing plumed hats, titled Marie Antoinette and Mad. Elizabeth, within gilt oval panels issuing scrolling foliage, each reverse with a stylised flower head, the stands gilt with shaped diaper panels between flowers and leaves, printed marks, early 20th Century, signed -- 10in. high