To track it down, I thought I’d reach out to someone who worked on the film, and as it happens, T editor at large Nick Haramis knows Chew-Bose, a Canadian writer and first-time film director. “I hope we can get to the bottom of this,” she said, referring me to the art director Samantha Mugnier, whom she felt certain would remember “this beautiful big vase.” Although Mugnier wasn’t sure about the object’s provenance, she pointed me in the direction of Le Garage Christian Sapet, the Parisian prop house from which she’d rented it. Their inventory list was mostly a dead end, but it did offer a clear image of the elusive object.