A Louis XV ormolu-mounted Japanese Imari Porcelain Pot Pourri Vase circa 1740

the saucer-shaped lid centered by an ormolu border, the cylindrical tapered body fitted with a pierced ormolu border cast with leaf tips and flanked by voluted leaf-cast ormolu handles, raised on a pierced voluted ormolu base; the lid and vase decorated in underglaze blue with flowering branches in green, yellow and iron red, highlighted with gilt.

Collection of Giuseppe Rossi, sold Sotheby's, London, March 10, 1999, lot 719.

Private collector, sold, Phillips, New York, June 11, 2002, lot 14.