A GILT-METAL AND WHITE-ONYX-MOUNTED SÈVRES-PATTERN TAPERING CYLINDRICAL PEDESTAL, the pale-blue ground reserved with shaped friezes enclosing cherubs among clouds, flanked by lovers' trophies, and with maidens in landscape, within ciselé gilt outlines, mounted with a white onyx shelf and base, a gilt-metal Doric capital, a laurel-wreath around the body and a fluted base (wear to gilding, chips to onyx), circa 1880