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A gilt-metal-mounted Sèvres-style vase
and cover, painted by E. Parrot with a couple wearing 18th century dress beside a lake, she is reading a letter as he looks on, within shaped gilt scrolling foliate panels with seeded and diaper-pattern sections suspending floral swags all reserved on a turquoise-ground, the reverse with a bridge across a backwater, between feuille-de-choux borders, the neck and foot gilt on a dark-blue-ground, signed -- 33in. (84cm.) high, late 19th century
and cover, painted by E. Parrot with a couple wearing 18th century dress beside a lake, she is reading a letter as he looks on, within shaped gilt scrolling foliate panels with seeded and diaper-pattern sections suspending floral swags all reserved on a turquoise-ground, the reverse with a bridge across a backwater, between feuille-de-choux borders, the neck and foot gilt on a dark-blue-ground, signed -- 33in. (84cm.) high, late 19th century