A VIENNA STYLE IRIDESCENT-RUBY GROUND PORTRAIT VASE, 'RUTH'
LATE 19TH/20TH CENTURY, BLUE BEEHIVE MARK, GILT DECORATOR'S MARK OBSCURRING MARK FOR MARTIAL, REDON & CIE., LIMOGES, IRON-RED PATTERN NO. 35016.
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A VIENNA STYLE IRIDESCENT-RUBY GROUND PORTRAIT VASE, 'RUTH'
LATE 19TH/20TH CENTURY, BLUE BEEHIVE MARK, GILT DECORATOR'S MARK OBSCURRING MARK FOR MARTIAL, REDON & CIE., LIMOGES, IRON-RED PATTERN NO. 35016.
Of elongated tapering oviform, the flaring neck gilt with a key-pattern band, finely painted after Landelle with a three-quarter length portrait of the Biblical beauty in a grey shift and white headscarf holding a bundle of wheat, within a raised gilt and beaded oval surround and further gilt ribbon-tied swags and vine, on a conforming socle
11½ (29.1 cm.) high
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Charles Landelle, French (1812-1908)
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