A Paris (Jacob Petit) blue-ground baluster vase
Circa 1845, blue J.P. mark
With richly gilt corn-cob and foliage handles and a flared convoluted lip, the ground richly gilt with cisel urns, torchres, conucopias, vine, scrolling foliage and swags of flowers and with a squirrel and a dove, the lower part on a spreading quatrefoil scroll foot, on a square base gilt with foliage, birds, cornucopias and lyres on green and claret grounds, on a stepped square base (minor damage to each handle, some very minor rubbing to gilding
20 in. (51 cm.) high