ID 437212
Lot 249 | A FRENCH 'JAPONISME' GILT, SILVERED, AND PATINATED- BRONZE A...
Estimate value
£ 12 000 – 18 000
POSSIBLY DESIGNED BY EUGÈNE CORNU AND EXECUTED BY G. VIOT & CIE., PARIS, CIRCA 1860
The cloisonné enamelled circular dished top with scalloped edge and decorated with a scene of a palace with ?ower-form ?reworks in the sky and a blooming prunus tree to the foreground above a faux-bambou openwork stem entwined with ?owered-liana and centred with an Asiatic bird, on a circular onyx base with a pierced lappet apron mounted with songbirds, on four out swept scroll feet
37 ¾ in. (94.5 cm.) high; 20 in. (51 cm.) diameter
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