A Sèvres vase and cover ('vase Couty' or 'coupe Couty') given to winners of the Exposition Universelle, dated 1879A Sèvres vase and cover ('vase Couty' or 'coupe Couty') given to winners of the Exposition Universelle, dated 1879Modelled by Edmé Couty, in Renaissance revival style with a blue ground decorated with various borders and motifs of scrolling foliage in two tones of gilding and bands of pâte-sur-pâte swags of fruit and foliage and scrolling ribbons against a gilt ground, the centre band of the coupe with the inscription 'EXPOSITION UNIVERSELLE INTERNATIONALE/MDCCCLXXVIII. PARIS.', the cover with similar gilt borders, 39cm high, RF and Decoré à Sèvres 79 within a circle stencilled in iron-red, S.79 in green and incised marks, gilder's mark GD. to vase and cover (2)The present lot was produced as a prix de Sèvres given to first prize winners at the Exposition Universelle of 1878. The drawing for the model's design survives in the Sèvres archives (inv. no. 2012.1.5539). Another example is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (accession no. 1990.238a,b).