A VERY FINE PAIR OF LOUIS XVI STYLE GILT BRONZE MOUNTED SÈVRES STYLE COBALT BLUE GROUND PORCELAIN VASES Paris, circa 1890s, painted by Charles Labarre

finely painted in the round with four outdoor scenes of streams and lakes with nymphs attended by cupids, one signed CH. LABARRE and the other C. LABARRE, the handles cast with female masks and berried laurel leaves, the lids have been unmounted to reveal pseudo-Sèvres interlaced L marks, one mount has been removed to reveal the mark JM.

Charles Labarre was a French porcelain painter active in the 1890s who has been recorded as working at Doulton Burslem and Sèvres.  He notably was the painter of the Columbus Vase, shown by Doulton & Co. at the World's Columbian Exhibition in Chicago in 1893.  Although unrecorded, the JM mark has been found on gilt bronze mounts of the highest Parisian quality of the period.