A pair of Paris porcelain black-ground vases late 19th/early 20th century

each painted with a colorful arrrangement of flowers within a gilt floral- and foliate-edged panel reserved on the black ground heightened with gilt and enamelled flowerheads and garlands, affixed on either side with a gilt swan-form handle and raised on a high square plinth.

Generally good condition apart from a minor factory-related flat chip to the edge of one plinth, that has been enamelled and fired.
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