Pair Antique French Paris Porcelain Hand-painted Dog Vases by Darte Frères 1810 Sculpture 12 cm X 11

12 cm X 11

model number "596" and an impressed date cypher and decorator's mark

the sides having corresponding featherbanded panels

and only a small number seem to be recorded

African contemporary oil on Panel figurative painting by Zacharia Mbutha

Pair Antique French Paris Porcelain Hand-painted Dog Vases by Darte Frères 1810 Sculpture 12 cm X 11A 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