A Gilt-Bronze mounted Sèvres style white ground porcelain lidded vase French, circa 1900

the lid surmounted with a pinecone finial, the front painted with an 18th century scene signed Poitevin and painted with Marie Antoinette and companion, the back decorated with a lakeside cartouche, the lid with interlaced L and E in underglaze blue and inscribed offert par le Prince de Rohan à la princess de Lomballe in underglaze red.

Tarnishing to gilt-bronze. The body with traces of repairs and overpaint. Some losses to the raised gilt decoration.
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