A Lobmeyr gilt and enamelled glass vase, circa 1880

of cylindrical shouldered form with a flaring neck upon a short spreading foot, brightly enamelled with a central band of stylised leaves on a blue ground, reserved within various horizontal borders highlighted in gilding, partially legible paper label inscribed '...& L./ LOBMEYR/ WIEN' to base, 

Bismarck Schonhausen Museum, Inv. nr. G VI Schön. 27

Very minor wear to gilding around rim and foot, but overall in very good condition.
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FOOT Note to come.