A VIENNA-STYLE WHITE-GROUND SLENDER TAPERING OVIFORM VASE with a short neck and a gilt fluted rim, painted with a portrait of Sahra Bernard, three-quarter length, holding a palm-frond, her dark-brown hair adorned with red flowers and leaves, wearing an embroidered dress and shawl, enclosed within a gilt oval cartouche, the ground shading from white to a lustrous pink and blue, richly gilt with stylised leaves and lilies in the Art Nouveau style and lavishly enriched with turquoise 'jewels' (minor wear to gilding at rim), blue beehive mark, black script, circa 1900