Pair of Large Bronze-Mounted Celadon and Gilt Covered Potpourri Jars, circa 1870

Pair of French gilt bronze and marble covered urns with flame finial, ram's head and hoofed feet.

Pair of gilt bronze two handled covered urns on marble bases, French, circa 1890.

Painted pattern numbers 3/233 in red or black.

Each relief molded urn flanked by upright handles, painted with roundels with a scene of lovers on the front and back, on a cobalt blue ground.

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