Featured lil odd pair

Hi folks these were something i picked up on the same day as the others

i ruddy love um

don't think we're talking one of the big boy companys, more like in the style of

but pretty damn neat all the same

i would guess at turn of the century ish (either before of after) ?

could do with more light this timer year

 

Lovely pair of bud vases.
The original paintings are both by Jean François Millet: "The Angelus" (prayer) and "The Gleaners" (poor people who searched for wheat after the harvest).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-François_Millet#The_Angelus

 

Marvellous stuff, thanks Aj, so a different paintings for each vase then. cool that the've both got the same artist thing going on in both

 

Well, they are a pair, so very famous paintings by the same artist would be appropriate. They are rather nicely done. Continental, I think. That shading from red to blue makes me think 1920s or later. There was a prediliction for what we would call "air-brushed" design in the 20s and 30s. Lots was done by Japanese firms, but I "think" these are continental.

 

totally agree with air brushed thing kw, their almost even a little noritake in that respect, but agree the subjects don't really fit

A pain when this sort of thing happens because without a concrete name behind them they'll never quite get the eyes when selling, but if they had a concrete name on them.......probably wouldn't of got them

 

They look very similar to Royal Bayreuth. I picked up these two interesting lil things in Cheltenham a couple of years ago. I have attributed them to Bayreuth but not certain.