A pair of jade-mounted gilt-bronze jardinières


Mid-Qing DynastyEach side set with a jade panel with lotus scrolls carved in openwork, the gilt-metal body incised around the inset panels with further lotus scrolls and the rims similarly decorated, all raised on four lobed feet, with two old metal liners, possibly original. Each 27cm (10 5/8in) wide (2).
|清中葉 銅鎏金嵌玉纏枝蓮紋倭角花盆 一對Provenance: a French private collection來源： 法國私人收藏Compare with a related gilt-bronze flowerpot but with panels of cloisonné enamel in the collection of the Palace Museum, Beijing, dated to the mid-Qing Dynasty, illustrated in the Compendium of Collections in the Palace Museum: Enamel 4, Beijing, 2011, pl.16