A flower vase shaped like flowers, with a leafy base

majolica (French: faience d’barbotine), colorful, slightly blurred ceramic paints, a transparent lead glaze (lead-borate?), with slight craquelure;
minor losses in the relief decoration of white flowers at the base of the stem, a small chip on a leaf at the base;
height 35 cm, triangular base 20.5 x 30.5 cm, unsigned.
France, early 20th century
A decorative vase for arranging flowers in the form of a bouquet of purple irises with long stems, surrounded by three sleeves—curved twigs bearing yellow-brick-colored tulip blossoms. The vase’s wide base is shaped like three flat water lily leaves (?) with raised, wavy edges, featuring three sculpted white flowers at the base of the stem.
A variety of French artistic majolica similar to delicate faience, known as faience d’barbotine, involving the casting of three-dimensional elements from liquid clay, which are mounted on vessels after drying, as well as a technique of hand-painting ceramics with glassy glazes in intense colors; developed and used in France in the early 20th century (turn of the 19th and 20th centuries).