A pair of gilt-bronze mounted Sèvres style cobalt blue ground porcelain covered vases Paris, circa 1895

both painted with 18th century courtiers to the front and landscapes to the reverse, one painted by and signed Amblet, the other Maurice, one with a removable cover with pseudo Meissen marks and letters AL and the inscription Made in France.

Possibly assembled. The first with a warmer color to the gilding than the other; and to the gilt bronze as well as to the gilt highlights. All bronze elements with tarnishing; the banding of the foot of one has gilt decoration while the other does not;
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