A REGENCE GILT-BRONZE AND CHINESE AUBERGINE-GLAZED PORCELAIN POT-POURRI VASE AND COVER, the domed pierced cover with flowerhead apertures surmounted by a naturalistically-cast platform with serpents, snails, frogs and foliage on a rocky outcrop, centred by a later acorn finial and within a gadrooned border, the frieze etched with birds, buildings, insects and flowers, above a tapering base with a later gadrooned silver-gilt rim, the porcelain Kangxi, restorations to lid