A pair of gilt-bronze mounted vases in Sèvres style, late 19th century

each ovoid body painted to the front with a scrolling medallion in gilding enclosing scenes of Venus seated astride a water creature and flanked by a putto, the reverse with panels of architectural landscapes, the waisted neck decorated with portrait medallions of ladies, overall applied with gilt-bronze mounts, signed A. Maglin, now mounted as lampstands (2)