A CONTINENTAL PORCELAIN DARK-BROWN-GROUND JARDINIÈRE of compressed urn shape, painted around the body with two luxuriant leafy bouquets of garden flowers including lilac, sweet-peas, carnations, peony, chrysanthemum, convolvulus, roses and other flowers, on a waisted stem and spreading circular foot similarly painted with flowers, the shoulder and footrim gilt with bands of leaves, the interior of the neck glazed in brown beneath a burnished gilt rim, on a square white foot with burnished gilt sides and gilt leaves and scrolling tendrils at the corners (small chips and crack to stem at junction with lower body), perhaps Vienna, circa 1840