10359 A large French gilt bronze mounted Japanese Imari bowl and cover, the two tone mounts with rearing dragon handles attributed to Maison Marnyhac or  Barbedienne, the Imari porcelain bowl decorated with panels of flowers and butterflies reserved on unusual blue and green ground, and with a replaced onion-shaped finial. Lid cracked and restored, the finial restored.

Japanese porcelain, French mounts

Porcelain 1720, mounts 1870

Height: 13.5 ins (34 cms)

Width: 15.75 ins (40 cms)

Bowl diameter: 10 ins (25.5 cms)                              £4,500