A VERY LARGE CONTINENTAL PORCELAIN ORMOLU-MOUNTED TOPOGRAPHICAL BLUE-GROUND OVIFORM VASE AND COVER
MID-19TH CENTURY
With ormolu pinecone finial, the straight-sided mid-section painted with a broad continuous landscape of figures herding cattle in wooded landscape and travellers in the distance before ruined classical column arches, Mount Vesuvius and the Bay of Naples, within ormolu reeded bands, the lower part mounted with ormolu acanthus leaves and scrolls above a richly-gilt socle and spreading foot, on an ormolu square-section plinth cast with acanthus, minute scratching to blue ground
42 3/8 in. (110.8 cm.) high overall
A VERY LARGE CONTINENTAL PORCELAIN ORMOLU-MOUNTED TOPOGRAPHICAL BLUE-GROUND OVIFORM VASE AND COVER
MID-19TH CENTURY
With ormolu pinecone finial, the straight-sided mid-section painted with a broad continuous landscape of figures herding cattle in wooded landscape and travellers in the distance before ruined classical column arches, Mount Vesuvius and the Bay of Naples, within ormolu reeded bands, the lower part mounted with ormolu acanthus leaves and scrolls above a richly-gilt socle and spreading foot, on an ormolu square-section plinth cast with acanthus, minute scratching to blue ground
42 3/8 in. (110.8 cm.) high overall
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