LATE 18TH CENTURY

A pair of vases with the same distinctive hooded female mask mounts is in the Wallace Collection, London. The mounts are dated to 1780-1782 on the basis of their similarities to Sèvres porcelain models of that date (see P. Hughes, The Wallace Collection: Catalogue of Furniture, London, 1996, vol. III, pp, 1400-4, cat. 291.