Engraved signature VERRERIE D'ART DE LORRAINE B S & Co déposé. Height 26 cm.
Reportedly executed by the glassblower Hilarius (Hilaire) Kiffer and was given to his son Alfred Joseph Kiffer as a gift in 1901, thence by descent.
Musée du Verre et du Cristal, Meisenthal 2007, "Désiré Christian et son Atelier", compare vase, no 71 (not signed), p 131, "Vase aux fleurs des champs", attributed to Armand and Désiré Christian.
Helga Hilschenz, 'Das Glas des Jugendstils', Prestel Verlag, München 1973, p 82ff, compare catalogue no 14, p 84.