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Date: late 19th century.
Dimensions: heron alone: 106 cm, base alone: 78 cm, total height: 184 cm.
Ceramic barbotine of a heron preparing to eat a frog. Modeled in the manner of naturalists, the heron is perched on a rock in the middle of a pond, covered with water lily leaves, a flower girl made of rushes at the back.
This very important composition rests on its triangular openwork base with scroll and interlacing patterns.
The whole is signed, marked with a coat of arms.
Ref: V9LDHKI0IX