A pair of fine French gilt bronze mounted turquoise glazed porcelain Pagoda pot pourri vases and coversthe mounts attributed to Alfred Emmanuel Beurdeleysecond half 19th centuryheight 16in (40.5cm); width 8in (20.25cm); depth 8in (20.25cm)Provenance: Property from the Estate Francis A. Martin III, San Francisco, California, curated by Steven Volpe.Footnote: One of a pair of nearly identical covered vases in Chinese celadon porcelain is illustrated C. Mestdagh, L Ameublement dart francais 1850-1900, Paris, 2010, p. 98, fig. 92. Described as a vase pagode, the pair was included in the Beurdeley stock liquidation sale of 6-9 May 1895.A single related example, of slightly larger scale with decorated Chinese celadon porcelain and unmarked mounts attributed to Beurdeley, is in the Rothschild Collection at Waddesdon Manor, no. 198.