Each based on the Sèvres model 'bachelier à anses tortillées', the ovoid bodies finely painted to both sides with birds in landscapes within gilt molded berried laurel borders with ribbons, flanked by twisted double branch handles terminating in acanthus, the cylindrical neck molded with stiff leaves, on a conforming socle and circular foot with laurel border, the domed cover with bud finial
15¹⁄₄ in. (37.7 cm.) high

Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 19 November 1991, lot 267.

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This vase form originated at Sèvres around 1768, and those with sage leaves on the base were shape 'A'. See R. Savill, The Wallace Collection, Catalogue of Sèvres Porcelain, London, 1988, Vol. I, pp. 299-309 for a discussion of this form and its development.