Pair Of Large Bronze Mounted Vases

A pair of large celestial blue Sevres-style porcelain vases.

They rest on a square base decorated with flowers and foliage in chiseled and gilded bronze.

The base of the vase is fitted with a gadrooned ring in finely chiseled and gilded bronze. The top of the vase is decorated with an openwork frieze made up of flowers and foliage in chiseled and gilded bronze.

The front of the vases is decorated with gallant scenes made up of couples entwined in a bucolic landscape in a gold frame.

The back side is decorated with bouquets of flowers in a gold frame. The handles of the vases are made of busts of winged men in chiseled and gilded bronze. The lids decorated with flowers and foliage are raised by pine cones in chiseled and gilded bronze.

Period 19th century