A French gilt-bronze mounted white porcelain and porphyry bowl, the gilt bronze socle and base second quarter 19th century, the porcelain Samson and circa 1880

A French gilt-bronze mounted white porcelain and porphyry bowl

the gilt bronze socle and base second quarter 19th century, the porcelain Samson and circa 1880

the bronze upper rims and handles later, on a waisted socle decorated with guilloche and paterae, raised on a square base and a later porphyry square base, with fleur de lys mark and double struck with TH for Palais de Tuileries, the porcelain with Samson blue crossed swords marks

26cm. high, 27cm. wide (across handles), 21.5cm. deep

Square base: 9x9cm.