Pair of French Bronze-Mounted Porcelain Garniture Urns, fourth quarter 19th century, on bronze Greek-key-molded bases, each of the urns with a cobalt ground and decorated with hand-painted putti depicting the four seasons, one urn with a pair of putti warming their hands while another displays the bounty of the harvest, personifying winter and autumn, and the other urn decorated with putti in a water garden while another putti frolics in the flowers, personifying spring and summer, each with bronze handles decorated with putti masques and bronze covers with flame-form knops, h. 20", w. 7", d. 5-1/4". Provenance: The Estate of Elaine Smith Frost White, Houston, Texas and East Hampton, New York.

Each vase has a small (about 1/8" OD) filled hole in the side of the body of the vase, below the handles. There is scattered wear to the gilt decoration on the cobalt blue ground. The gilt-bronze is in very good condition. Otherwise in excellent condition, with no additional chips, cracks, losses or restorations.