Lot 236
  • 236

An assembled pair of Sèvres-style milk pails late 19th century

Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 USD
bidding is closed

Description

  • ceramics
  • heights 12 1/8 in.
  • 30.8 cm
each molded around the body in relief with putti holding hands, entwined with a laurel wreath, beneath the gilt-edged blue-ground border decorated in relief with scrolling foliage, applied on either side with a ram's head handle, pseudo interlaced L's enclosing AA or aa.

Condition

One of the ram's head handle has restoration to the tip of ram's beard, forming the lower terminal of the handle. Otherwise in good condition.
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