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CIRCA 1890, THE COVERS WITH PRINTED IMITATION SÈVRES LOUIS PHILIPPE MARKS
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A pair of Sèvres-style dark-blue-ground gilt-metal-mounted oviform vases and covers
Circa 1890, the covers with printed imitation Sèvres Louis Philippe marks
Each painted with a gallant and companion in a pastoral landscape within a tapering oval cartouche with raised gilt scrolling foliage issuing elaborate gilt scrolls enclosing diaper panels, the reverse painted with a château in a river landscape, within a raised gilt leaf cartouche, the domed cover with raised gilt scrolling foliage, with gilt-metal cone finial, the rim of the cover applied with a beaded band, the rim of the vase cast with an egg-and-dart pattern, the elaborate scroll handles suspending swags of laurel leaves, the lower part supported by a band of overlapping stiff leaves on a spreading gadrooned foot above berried laurel and square base with canted corners (the covers possibly a contemporary match, both restored, some rubbing to gilding)
20 in. (50.8 cm.) and 20¼ in. (51.4 cm.) high (2)
Circa 1890, the covers with printed imitation Sèvres Louis Philippe marks
Each painted with a gallant and companion in a pastoral landscape within a tapering oval cartouche with raised gilt scrolling foliage issuing elaborate gilt scrolls enclosing diaper panels, the reverse painted with a château in a river landscape, within a raised gilt leaf cartouche, the domed cover with raised gilt scrolling foliage, with gilt-metal cone finial, the rim of the cover applied with a beaded band, the rim of the vase cast with an egg-and-dart pattern, the elaborate scroll handles suspending swags of laurel leaves, the lower part supported by a band of overlapping stiff leaves on a spreading gadrooned foot above berried laurel and square base with canted corners (the covers possibly a contemporary match, both restored, some rubbing to gilding)
20 in. (50.8 cm.) and 20¼ in. (51.4 cm.) high (2)