Pair Antique French Paris Porcelain Hand-painted Dog Vases by Darte Frères 1810 Sculpture and only a small number

and only a small number seem to be recorded

12 cm X 11

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

He was awarded the gold medal at the 1900 World Exhibition in Paris and was accepted as a Knight in the Legion of Honour in 1901

James Nelson Raymond Traveling Fellowship

Pair Antique French Paris Porcelain Hand-painted Dog Vases by Darte Frères 1810 Sculpture and only a small numberA 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