A MAGNIFICENT PAIR OF MASSIVE ORMOLU-MOUNTED FAMILLE ROSE 'TOBACCO LEAF' BALUSTER VASES AND COVERS The porcelain circa 1775, the mounts 19th Century Each brightly enamelled with a large phoenix in the foreground, its mate partly concealed by pale blue, pale yellow, iron-red and grisaille broad overlapping serrated leaves and exotic large and small blooms, the waisted shoulder four shaped panels of deer alternating with vases of flowers surrounded by floral lappets, fruit and flower sprays and scrolls, all reserved on a pale turquoise cell-pattern ground below an iron-red and gilt squared-spiral band at the rim, the domed covers similarly decorated below the lotus bud finials, one neck restored; the tall elaborate ormolu stands with the arms of Harrach amongst acanthus leaves and swags, and the ormolu upper section with floral sprays including bullrushes, chrysanthemum and iris interspersed with sconces the vases and covers 52¾ in. (134 cm.) high, overall height with ormolu mounts 106¼ in. (270 cm.) (2)
A MAGNIFICENT PAIR OF MASSIVE ORMOLU-MOUNTED FAMILLE ROSE 'TOBACCO LEAF' BALUSTER VASES AND COVERS The porcelain circa 1775, the mounts 19th Century Each brightly enamelled with a large phoenix in the foreground, its mate partly concealed by pale blue, pale yellow, iron-red and grisaille broad overlapping serrated leaves and exotic large and small blooms, the waisted shoulder four shaped panels of deer alternating with vases of flowers surrounded by floral lappets, fruit and flower sprays and scrolls, all reserved on a pale turquoise cell-pattern ground below an iron-red and gilt squared-spiral band at the rim, the domed covers similarly decorated below the lotus bud finials, one neck restored; the tall elaborate ormolu stands with the arms of Harrach amongst acanthus leaves and swags, and the ormolu upper section with floral sprays including bullrushes, chrysanthemum and iris interspersed with sconces the vases and covers 52¾ in. (134 cm.) high, overall height with ormolu mounts 106¼ in. (270 cm.) (2)
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