LARGE SEVRES PORCELAIN VASE, FOR THE 1874 PARIS EXPOSITION the everted neck above a baluster body with two splayed gilt bronze anthemion-form handles terminating in female masks, decorated with a blue glaze with speckled gilding imitating lapis-lazuli, with gilt inscription to body EXPOSITION DES BEAUX-ARTS/ 1874/ VICOMTE DE CUMONT/ MINISTRE DE L'INSTRUCTION PUBLIQUE DES CULTES ET DES BEAUX-ARTS, within a gilt border of bow-tied fruiting oak and olive leaves, all raised on a short stem and circular foot, printed marks DORE A SEVRES/ 74/ S.73 69cm high