Pair Antique French Paris Porcelain Hand-painted Dog Vases by Darte Frères 1810 Recently Added "Boats at Dock"

"Boats at Dock"

a fine and rare pair of antique country house library bookcases

John was the main craftsman and did the glazing and leading

this is the less common walnut finish

the doors enclosing a storage area

Pair Antique French Paris Porcelain Hand-painted Dog Vases by Darte Frères 1810 Recently Added "Boats at Dock"A 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