A fine pair of 18th century S�vres soft paste porcelain Ice Pails (Seau or jatte � glace). In three parts, the urn shaped bowl, which is fitted with angular handles terminating in gilded floral attachments, rests on three bun feet. It is accompanied by a pain liner and cover with a raised outer wall. The handle of the cover is formed by two upright confronted C-shaped acanthus fronds. Ice cream or sorbet would have been placed in the liner, and crushed ice and salt in the bowl and the well of the cover. Finely decorated with a turquoise blue ground (Bleu C�leste), very finely painted with polychrome flowers and fruit in enclosed frames, reserved within a loose floral trail of tooled & burnished gold. The later added decoration attributed to the English workshop of Thomas Martin Randall at Madeley c.1830. This little factory specialised in the decoration and re-decoration of imported French wares, as well as the manufacture of porcelains in the same style. A portion of these imported pr...