Huge Deroche Vase

This is a really nice empire period vase / urn made by one of the Paris area makers in the early 19th century and marked Deroche a Paris. I know he had a shop on Rue Jean Jacques Rousseau in Paris but I cannot figure out if he was a decorator or just a dealer. The vase has a really nice shape to it and is superbly decorated with a large portrait of a lady on the front and a typical design to the back of Paris makers of this period. My favirote part is that rasberry ground that covers the mid section of the vase, There are some great gold designs on top of that to fill in the spaces by the handle terminals as shown. The handles have a nice shape to them as well and off course there is plenty of gilding as is common for these pieces. What is unusual especially for a piece of this size is that the gold has almost no wear to it at all. Someone covered up the very top edge with some new but darker gilding and the section where the foot meets the main vase as well but that does not distract at all and it looks superb on display. It has a minor chip to one of the decorations of the handle and some idiot has drilled it in the past to make it a lamp so it has a hole to the back of the base and on the inside. Neither affects it when on display. Two scratches near the design of the back and a small white spot in the gilding there as well. A truly stunning piece and with it being 20.5 inches tall, about 10 inches from handle to handle and 7 inches deep it is the largest I ahve owned and the most elegant. This size sells for about 10K on First Dibs. Please email me for more information or other pictures.