SEVRES Exceptional and rare hard-paste porcelain baluster vase, celadon ground, with polychrome Art Nouveau decoration of flowers enhanced with gold in relief, the lower part painted in imitation of water, the upper part enameled blue with a frieze of butterflies. Manufacture nationale de Sèvres, 1897. Intaglio paste manufacturing marks dated February 1897, S.97 mark in black, decoration mark in red dated 1897. Signature of painter Horace Désiré Bieuville (active 1879-1925) dated 1897. H. 48 cm (one scratch) Expert | Maxime CHARRON

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