118. Porcelain bowl and its base with polychrome and gold decoration of flowers and insects on a celadon background, gold nets on the edges. Chased and gilded bronze mounting composed of handles with foliage, pearls, gadroons and rais-de-coeur. The pedestal and base enriched with foliage also in chased and gilded bronze. Numbered 1317 under the base. Louis XVI style, late 19th century. (Missing a small screw under the base). H : 34 cm - W : 39 cm - D : 26 cm The shape is inspired by the model designed by the merchant-merchant Daguerre at the end of the XVIIIth century, around 1784-1790, called then " Daguerre oval " or " Daguerre round ", according to the shape of their body. It was Pierre-Philippe Thomire who contributed to the making of the gilded bronze frame which the artist used in the 19th century to make the vase we present. The model was very successful in the eighteenth century, so Madame Du Barry bought "two vases mounted in bronze" for 1000 pounds each and Madame Adelaide bought "two vases cassolettes" for 816 livres in all. It is therefore not surprising that luxury furniture houses sought to reproduce identically at the end of the nineteenth century a vase model so famous in the eighteenth century. Bibliography : KJELLBERG, Pierre, Objets montés du Moyen Age nos jours, Les éditions de l'Amateur, Paris, 2000, page 126.