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Modeled with a gilt-rimmed everted lip and tapered neck enameled with yellow flowers, the shoulder finely painted and hand-tooled in white slip with putti holding amphorae spilling water into crashing waves below, all raised on a similarly decorated socle
2634 in. (68 cm.) high
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Anatole Alexis Fournier (1864-1926) is recorded as a decorator at the Sèvres manufactory from 1878 until 1926. For another vase of this form and size in the Musée National du Château de Compiègne, see B. Ducrot, Porcelaines et Terres de Sèvres, Paris, 1993, p. 232, no. 178.

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