An ormolu-mounted Sevres turquoise-ground jardiniere

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An ormolu-mounted Sevres turquoise-ground jardiniere
With circular egg-and-dart-cast rim with fluted underside, the cylindrical body decorated to each side with a panel depicting figures in a landscape with classical buildings and ruins, within a foliate gilt border, with a pair of ram's mask handles and acanthus-cast lower section, on fluted spreading foot with laurel-cast edge, on square base, the interior with lift-out metal liner, the unerside of the urn with the interlaced L mark, the porcelain 18th Century, the decoration later, the ormolu first half 19th Century
16½ in. (42 cm.) high; 13¾ in. (35 cm.) diameter

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