Manufacture Nationale de Sèvres Rapin number 13 new paste porcelain vase decorated with a shepherdess, her dog and sheep surrounded by flowering stems, 1937. Marked: "à la rose" stamp in black and letter date j for 1937 and B.R. d'AP. Luce paris proj.76.35. Height: 29.5 cm - Neck diameter: 17.8 cm Restored crack. Rapin form vase n°13 - form created by Henri Rapin, architect-decorator and director of works of art from 1920 to 1938 - painted by Robert Bonfils from drawings by "Paris Hilsum Luce" an artist who created forms and decorations at Sèvres between 1933 and 1937. The decor is called Bergère. The preparatory drawing is kept at Sèvres under inventory number 2013.D.6581.

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