Lot 642
  • 642

A pair of French silver-mounted Sèvres-style porcelain vases, the mounts by Henri Lapeyre, Paris, circa 1910

Estimate
6,000 - 8,000 USD
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Description

  • marked on mounts, porcelain signed on base
  • porcelain, silver
  • height 12 3/8 in.
  • 31.5 cm
the vases with alternating pink and trellis ground panels painted with flower sprays and linked by gilt tooled floral swags, the mounts chased with acanthus and similar swags

Condition

both with some minor dings to mounts, one mount with shallow dent to rim and with some unevan surfaces, the porcelain in good condition with some minor losses to gilt tooling
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