Object Description
A Pair of Large Gilt-Bronze Mounted Sèvres-Style Cobalt Blue Ground Porcelain Vases and Covers.
Signed ‘H. Desprez’.
Each of baluster form. One painted to the front with Louis XV and Maurice de Saxe at the Battle of Fontenoy. The other painted to the front with Louis XV and Maurice de Saxe at the Battle of Lauffeld. The reverse of each finely painted with a chateau in a parkland vista.
The lids with pomegranate finials above gilt-embossed crowns and crossed laurel branches symbolising victory and power. The necks and foot gilt-embossed with the Royal coats of arms of Louis XV of France against a cobalt blue ground. The bodies with gilt-bronze laurel swagged handles above parcel gilt detailing. Each on a circular gilt-bronze foot, cast with laurel and gilt patera.
France, Circa 1890