NEVERS FAIENCE BOTTLE FROM THE LATE 17th CENTURY Baluster-shaped, with four handles, decorated in green, ochre and manganese on each side with a bouquet of flowers and birds, braiding on the neck and base; base and two handles restored, chips. H. 26 cm (10 ¼ in.) Provenance: Galerie Vandermeersch, Paris ; Sale in Paris, Me Tajan, 10 October 2017, lot 27. A Nevers faience bottle, late 17th century For another example of similar form and decoration, held in the collections of the Musée Gadagne in Lyon, see the Musée National de Sèvres exhibition catalogue, La Faïence européenne au XVIIe siècle, Paris, 2003, p.181, n.146; and by Jean Rosen, La faïence de Nevers 1585-1900, T.2, L'Age d'or du XVIIe siècle, Dijon, 2009, p.302, fig.504.