GUEST: These belonged to my great-grandfather.

He lived in Leicester in England, and as a child, I used to go visit him, and he had a house full of antiques.

When he passed away in 1973, my mother inherited them.

My parents emigrated to the United States in the '70s, and in one of their moves, these got lost.

She just passed away this last year, and we found them in a storage unit in November.

APPRAISER: So your mother passed away thinking that these were forever lost... GUEST: Yes.

APPRAISER: ...and she would never see them again.

GUEST: Yes.

And they were in a box labeled "kitchen utensils."

APPRAISER: What do you think these are?

GUEST: When I was growing up, they were always referred to as the Sèvres vases.

APPRAISER: The Sèvres factory started in 1740, and in 1756, they moved to Sèvres, which is on the outskirts of Paris.

These are very typical of what we would expect Sèvres porcelain to look like, especially if we look at the hand-painted designs.

The raised gilding, the ram's head handles is very typical of Sèvres porcelain.

So when we look at what we think might be Sèvres porcelain, we have to look at all kinds of things.

When I see a Sèvres mark, uh, they're almost always fake.

In fact, I would say 99% of the Sèvres marks that I see on porcelain or pottery are actually fake marks.

GUEST: Oh, wow.

APPRAISER: So it's definitely a category where it's, they're guilty until proven innocent.

So the quality of the painting is quite nice.

If we turn it, we see on the backside there is another scene, a pastoral scene of, a landscape, with trees and so forth.

The one near you is a little wobbly.

GUEST: Right.

APPRAISER: And because it's a little wobbly, I don't want to spin it.

APPRAISER: It, it might be a little precarious, but the back scene is very similar, complementary, but different.

If we turn it over, we do see a hand-painted Sèvres mark, but we can see that this is actually made of pottery and not soft-paste porcelain.

GUEST: Ah.

APPRAISER: So even though there are other things that might suggest that these could be authentic Sèvres, Sèvres didn't do pottery.

GUEST: Right.

APPRAISER: So, bam.

They, sadly, were not made by Sèvres.

GUEST: Okay.

APPRAISER: So these are antique, hand-painted pottery Sèvres-style urns.

I would guess that they are late 19th century.

They could be early 20th century.

Who made them?

Don't know.

I'm gonna guess that they are British.

GUEST: Okay.

APPRAISER: But they could be French.

Both lids have damages.

This lid has, like, five chips on it, and there's a little bit of gold wear.

So with damages, I would think a retail value for the pair might be in the range of $400 to $600.

GUEST: Okay.

Lovely.

APPRAISER: Yeah.

GUEST: Thank you.