Large Canton Porcelain Cup, Gilt Bronze Mount, Nineteenth Time.

Important porcelain cup from Canton, with polychrome decoration of palace scenes in storerooms, garlands and bouquets of flowers and butterflies. It rests on a magnificent quadrilobed base in finely chiseled gilded bronze, rococo style with beautiful ribbed volutes. Two handles decorated with acanthus leaves and flowers complete the frame. Period: last quarter of the 19th century. Width: 50 cm (at the handles), height: 32 cm Diameter of the cup: 34.5 cm, Diameter of the cup alone: 28 cm