A Desvres Northern French faience octagonal vase, marked Lf, late 19th century inspired by Dutch Delft examples, the bulbous body and narrow garlic bulb neck polychrome painted with reserves of exotic birds perched on flowering branches, further with Chinese style lappets and trialing foliage scrolls, in blue, iron red, green and yellow, with Lf monogram and B marks to the underside. Height 46 cm