A VIENNA-STYLE WHITE-GROUND OVIFORM VASE with a short neck and a broad fluted gilt rim, painted with a portrait of Olivia, head and shoulders, with long dark-brown hair wreathed in ivy and wearing a low-cut dress, within a gilt oval cartouche, the ground shading to dark blue towards the base and painted in raised gilding and silver with sprays of stylised sunflowers on leafy stems divided by smaller flowers (slight wear to gilding), blue beehive mark, black script, impressed numbers, circa 1900

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A VIENNA-STYLE WHITE-GROUND OVIFORM VASE with a short neck and a broad fluted gilt rim, painted with a portrait of Olivia, head and shoulders, with long dark-brown hair wreathed in ivy and wearing a low-cut dress, within a gilt oval cartouche, the ground shading to dark blue towards the base and painted in raised gilding and silver with sprays of stylised sunflowers on leafy stems divided by smaller flowers (slight wear to gilding), blue beehive mark, black script, impressed numbers, circa 1900
9½in. (24cm.) high

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