A PAIR OF ORMOLU-MOUNTED SEVRES STYLE LARGE VASES AND COVERS

A PAIR OF ORMOLU-MOUNTED 'SEVRES' STYLE LARGE VASES AND COVERS, LATE 19TH CENTURY, pedestal urn shaped, the cobalt blue ground reserving ovals painted with portrait busts of Louis XVI or Marie Antoinette above elongated oval reserves of couples courting beside lakes, painted to the reverse with fruits and flowers, all within 'jewelled' gilt borders surrounded by further burnished gilt details, the gilt-bronze angular handles suspending husk swags and ending in Bacchic masks, the in-curved square bases on bracket feet, domed covers lacking finials, interiors with gilt-metal linings and covers, painted pseudo Sevres marks, 60.5cm high