The baluster vase with applied blossoming branches and flanked by a peacock, all patinated in gilt, silver, and iridescent copper, on a gilt and silver-painted damascene circular base with scrolled feet
24 in. (61 cm.) high, 14¹⁄₂ in. (37 cm.) wide, 11 in. (28 cm.) deep

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Lot Essay

The iridescently-patinated peacock is intended to resemble Japanese metalworks known as mokume. Similar designs incorporating this technique are repeated throughout Eugène Cornu's oeuvre, particularly a number of onyx guéridons of either peacock or crane-form, such as two sold at Christie's, London, 23 September 2010, lots 75 and 76. A vase of this form was sold at Christie’s, London, 24 May 2018, lot 609.