Vase - Earthenware - Napoleon III - circa 1870

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French Napoléon III faience vase, circa 1870, with an aquamarine ground, hand-applied polychrome and gilt putti and scrolling foliage, measuring 32 cm high and showing a hairline crack and age-related wear.

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Large and charming cylindrical vase on a plinth, made of fine stoneware or opaque glazed porcelain, with an aquamarine ground. Polychrome decoration enhanced and hand-gilded in the eighteenth-century taste, featuring putti and scrolling foliage; gilded borders at the neck and base.

France, Napoleon III period.

Good condition apart from a hairline crack and wear consistent with age (see photos).

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