A PAIR OF PARIS CLOBBERED GOLD-GROUND VASES
A PAIR OF PARIS CLOBBERED GOLD-GROUND VASES

THE PORCELAIN EARLY 19TH CENTURY, PROBABLY NAST, SOME OF THE DECORATION LATER, GILT MARKS DEFACED

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A PAIR OF PARIS CLOBBERED GOLD-GROUND VASES
The porcelain early 19th century, probably Nast, some of the decoration later, gilt marks defaced
Each with finely moulded and chased ram's head scroll handles, the oviform body gilt with Grecian figures, the reverse painted in colours with a goddess attended by a putto, flanked by cornucopia, on socle and square base
12½in. (31.7cm.) high (2)

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See Régine de Plinval de Guillebon, Faience et Porcelaine de Paris, Dijon, 1995, p. 14 for a handle detail attributed to Nast.

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