A gilt-bronze mounted Sèvres style cobalt blue ground ceramic lidded vase Paris, circa 1895

the lid with gilt highlight decoration surmounted by a pinecone finial and inscribed to the reverse with interlaced L and D, the body painted by and signed Lucot depicting eighteenth century courtesans in a garden by a lakeside.

Good condition overall. Wear to gilt highlights and wear to rim of vase. The gilt-bronze base with no trace of gilding and some minor patched repairs around ceramic feet at base.
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