A MASSIVE PAIR OF CONTINENTAL PLATINUM, GOLD AND IRON-RED GROUND VASES

A MASSIVE PAIR OF CONTINENTAL PLATINUM, GOLD AND IRON-RED GROUND VASES
DATED 1876, PROBABLY PIRKENHAMMER, SIGNED A. CARRIER. HAMMER.
Each of baluster form with everted mouth, the gilt shoulder chased with a stylized key-pattern, flanked by upright scroll-handles moulded with acanthus and with anthemion terminals, finely painted with a pack of dogs attacking either a wild boar or a stag, the reverse with a landscape, the lower body moulded and applied with four angular lion masks, on an acanthus moulded socle and conforming foot
43½ in. (110.5 cm.) high (2)