Pair of Louis XVI-style covered decorative porcelain spindle-shaped vases with bronze and patinated brass mounts. Polychrome and gilded decoration on a blue background of landscapes and scenes galantes, signed G. Rochette, in reserves and enhanced with leaf friezes. The pomegranate-shaped top handle of the fictitious lid, the handles decorated with laurel acanthus leaves and non-moving rings with laurel garlands, the square base with re-entrant angles. In the 18th century Sèvres style. H. 46 cm. Worn gilding, scratches, non-functional lids.

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