A pair of Dresden armorial vases, 19th century

of urn shape with two entwined snake handles, painted with the Royal armorials of  Poland-Lithuania and the Electorate of Saxony with hunting trophies to the reverse, the central band and foot painted with a continuous hunting scene, with square bases moulded with hunting trophies picked out in colours and covers surmounted with portrait medallions of Augustus the Strong and Augustus III and their consorts, AR marks in underglaze-blue.

One cover has a flat chip to the underside edge of the rim.
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