A pair of large Louis XVI gilt bronze-mounted Chinese coral and gilt porcelain vases

A pair of large Louis XVI gilt bronze-mounted Chinese coral and gilt porcelain vases
 circa 1780

The porcelain Kangxi Period (1662-1722)

Height: 73.5 cm (28 ¾ in.)                                                Width at base: 20.7 cm (8 ¼ in.)

Depth at base: 20.7 cm (8 ¼ in.)

Provenance:

Galerie Aveline, Paris, January 1977

Comparative Literature:

A silver-mounted Kangxi period porcelain, ginger pot with the same distinctive decoration, is illustrated in Gillian Wilson, Mounted Oriental Porcelain in the J. Paul Getty Museum, 1999, page 45, n° 7.