Pair Antique French Paris Porcelain Hand-painted Dog Vases by Darte Frères 1810 Decorative Arts the links are solid

the links are solid

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Pair Antique French Paris Porcelain Hand-painted Dog Vases by Darte Frères 1810 Decorative Arts the links are solidA large & wonderful pair of antique French Porcelain de Paris Darte Frres hand painted & gilded portrait vases, with scenes of dogs, and painted in the manner of Fragonard, circa 1810. The vases of baluster shape with a gold ground and hand painted with unusual panels of dogs (likely Brittany spaniels), one is seen rescuing a child after falling into the water with a toy boat, the other with a child & a dog fetching a hat from the water, the paintings