Lot 1798 D α

An ormolu-mounted Chinese porcelain vase

Blue and white porcelain vase painted with flowering shrubs, insects and birds elegantly mounted with an ormolu cuff around the lip and a scroll base with acanthus supports. With firing cracks and a restored crack through the base. H 22.2, W 31 cm.
The porcelain China, presumably Kangxi period, the mountings attributed to Paris, second third 18th C.