A pair of French gilt bronze mounted gold layered turquoise ground Sevres style vases with royal portraits, ca. 1890

A pair of French gilt bronze mounted gold layered turquoise ground Sevres style vases with royal portraits, ca. 1890 H 70 cm Each with a pierced rim above a waisted neck, one with a portrait of Louis XVI, the other with Marie-Antoinette, above the tapering body, each decorated with a shield-shaped painted panel, on one vase depicting a man and two women trapping birds, on the other a man and two women trapping birds, on the other a man and two women fishing, with reverse panels painted with flowers, with a pair of acanthus-cast handles, each on a spreading foot cast with a band of laurel and vines, each with blue imitation interlaced 'L' mark. Provenance: - Christie's, London, The 19th Century Interior, 25 February1999, lot 182 (link)