SARREGUEMINES (factory founded around 1790), Pair of vases in Oriental style

majolica, underglaze ceramic paints, lead glaze; height 47.7 cm, width approx. 23 cm (diagonal);
Signed in underglaze impression (both vases): MAJOLICA / SARREGUEMINES / 662 / UU, or : MAJOLICA / SARREGUEMINES / 663 / UU; (662-663: model numbers).
France, Alsace, Sarreguemines manufactory, circa 1880.
Pair of tall, 4-sided vases, rhomboidal in cross-section; with colorful relief decoration, convex and plastic in Far Eastern style. The decoration on the gray-green walls with a relief with a motif of squares "with a labyrinth", covers two adjacent sides each, in a 2-sided arrangement: a leafy bough with small twigs and a bird, with two landscape miniatures in flat circular fields-reserves and on the plan of a slice of a circle. On one of the opposite sides - two flying birds (swallows). Decoration of vases designed as a pair (consecutive model numbers); they were also used as decoration of lamp bases in pairs.