A PAIR OF ORMOLU-MOUNTED SEVRES STYLE 'JEWELLED' BRIGHT-BLUE GROUND VASES AND TWO COVERS
A PAIR OF ORMOLU-MOUNTED SEVRES STYLE 'JEWELLED' BRIGHT-BLUE GROUND VASES AND TWO COVERS

LATE 19TH CENTURY

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A PAIR OF ORMOLU-MOUNTED SEVRES STYLE 'JEWELLED' BRIGHT-BLUE GROUND VASES AND TWO COVERS
LATE 19TH CENTURY
Each of elongated oviform, the tall necks and sloping shoulders with tooled gilt scrollwork and 'jewelled' pendants, finely painted with a seated maiden and attendants offering flowers or with an embracing couple before a lady offering pearls, in classical landscapes, within black-lined shield-shaped cartouches enriched in polychrome 'jewels', flanked by upright scroll pilaster handles topped by female busts, the reverse painted with birds nesting among flowers, on a conforming socle, on alternating monopodia mythical beast and acanthus scroll feet
27 in. (68.5 cm.) high (4)

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