A Chinese Cloisonne Enameled Gilt Bronze Mounted Vase of ovoid form with an everted mouth rim, worked throughout to show stylized beast masks, archaic dragons and scrolls, lotus blossoms, taotie-mask decorated lappets and phoenix, mounted at the neck with phoenix handles and at the shoulder with beast-mask loose-ring handles, raised on standing beast-form feet, bearing a Ming style dragon medallion to the underside. Height 12 5/8 inches.