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For your consideration is a beautiful, highly detailed pair of antique 19th-century white-glazed porcelain figural spill vases. Featuring striking, fan-shaped stylized palm or fern leaf backdrops accented with elegant gold gilt trim, the bases depict intricate, classic hunting and pursuit scenes with figures, horses, and hounds.The Significance of the Consecutive Marks (998 & 999):
The undersides of these vases are incised/impressed with consecutive numbers: one is marked998and the other999. During the mid-to-late 19th century, independent French artisanal workshops (such as those producing Old Paris or Vierzon porcelain) used numerical mold stamps rather than factory logos to track specific production batches, patterns, and shape variations.[1,2]Finding a pair with consecutive numbers is highly significant for collectors because it serves as definitive proof that these two vases were created together as atrue, historically matched setfrom the very same workshop. Over the last 150+ years, these pairs were frequently broken up, making a surviving consecutively numbered pair exceptionally rare and desirableThe pain was and applied after firing and therefore common to have chipped away.
