Sèvres soft paste porcelain vase. Apple green ground with tooled and burnished gold decoration, bulbous pear shape, cover with knob formed of raised posy and pierced with fan-shape patterns, shoulders mounted with (later) gilt bronze marine head masks within bull rushes, the vase resting in a gilt bronze cup with an oval foot. Shaped front reserve painted with a polychrome pastoral scene, the reverse with a posy of flowers.