A PAIR OF CONTINENTAL PORCELAIN POWDERED LAVENDER-GROUND VASES
PROBABLY GERMAN OR AUSTRIAN, 19TH CENTURY
Each of shield shape, with lion mask handles applied at the shoulder, painted with three birds perched in a tree within a landscape vignette, reserved within a gilt medallion on the powdered-purple ground, further gilt with foliate scrolls of bulrushes and anthemia linked by garlands of flowers, the neck and socle gilt with trailing berried vine, cover lacking
11 7/8 in. (30 cm.) high
A PAIR OF CONTINENTAL PORCELAIN POWDERED LAVENDER-GROUND VASES
PROBABLY GERMAN OR AUSTRIAN, 19TH CENTURY
Each of shield shape, with lion mask handles applied at the shoulder, painted with three birds perched in a tree within a landscape vignette, reserved within a gilt medallion on the powdered-purple ground, further gilt with foliate scrolls of bulrushes and anthemia linked by garlands of flowers, the neck and socle gilt with trailing berried vine, cover lacking
11 7/8 in. (30 cm.) high