A pair of Paris porcelain pink-ground campana vases circa 1840-45

each reserved on the front with a panel painted with a medieval figure in an interior and decorated on the reverse with a martial trophy in gilding, both affixed on either side with a bearded mask handle beneath gilt crowned initials C or V on one and a crowned C or garlanded A on the other.

Both vases are lacking their covers and have some typical wear to the gilding around the rim edges, handles and foot. The vase on the right in catalogue illustration: There is an approximate 1/4-inch flat chip to one corner of the square base. There is some wear around one end of one handle where the handle meets the top of the mask, which does not appear to be restored.
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The vases possibly commemorate, on the vase bearing the initials C and A, the betrothal or marriage of Princess Clémentine of Orléans (1817-1907) to Prince August of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1818-1881) in 1843; and on the other vase bearing the initials L and V, the marriage of her brother, Prince Louis of Orléans (1806-1896), Duke of Nemours, to Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg and Kohary (1822-1857) in 1840.