A LOUIS XV/XVI ORMOLU-MOUNTED CHINESE PORCELAIN VASE, WITH LATER SNAKE HANDLES, QIANLONG PERIOD

A LOUIS XV/XVI ORMOLU-MOUNTED CHINESE PORCELAIN COVERED VASE, WITH LATER SNAKE HANDLES, QIANLONG PERIOD, CIRCA 1770
the domed pierced lid with an ormolu foliate plate and berried knop, the neck fitted with a deep gadrooned ormolu rim cast with entrelacs enclosing rosettes above beed-and-reel and a leaf cast border, the baluster-shaped vase fitted with berried grape, oak and laurel leaf swags and now fitted with intertwined serpent-shaped handles, raised on a leaf-cast ormolu base above scrolled feet cast with acanthus leaves, height: 66 cm (26 in.)

PROVENANCE
Couturier et Nicolay, Paris, 31 March, 1994, lot 70
Collection of Lily & Edmond J. Safra
Sotheby's, New York, November 3-4, 2005, lot 154 ("Property from the Collections of Lily & Edmond J. Safra")
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner