A pair of&n🌞bsp;gilt-bronze mounted hard paste Sèvres porcelain black-ground chinoiserie (vases "à Bandeau"), the mounts attributed to Fr๊ançois Rémond, circa 1792

with ormolu dragon handles, the dragons perched on tapering pierced ring, trellis and harebell fretwork supports terminating at the ൲socle cast with band of berried egg and dart ornament above down-turned stiff-leaves on a circular foot and square plinth base, the porcelain vase moulded⛄ with a broad central band, painted with chinoiserie scenes of courtly figures in Oriental costume to one side with a couple and child, the other with a male and a female figure with child in attendance, before altars, braziers, flower baskets and pagoda in a naturalistic setting, the black-ground necks decorated in gold and platinum with swags of flowers and pearls, the black-ground lower portions similarly decorated with chinoiserie parasol ornament and swags suspended from ribbons above branches

height 12½in. ; width 20 in.; 32.5 cm; 20 cm.

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Paire de vases "à bandeau" en porcelain𓄧e dure et bronze doré, Manufac🌃ture de Sèvres, vers 1792

la✱ porcelaine par Pierre-André Le Guay et Charles-Antoine Didier, la monture de la fin de l'époque Louis XVI, attrib🌄uée à François Rémond

height 12½in. ; width 20 in.; 32.5 cm; 20 cm.

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