Large magnificent antique ceramic and bronze French Barbotine Edouard Gilles majolica floral jardinière w/mottled glaze on body and voluptuous rose blossoms and foliage in high relief on one side and a high relief bearded iris on reverse side. Handpainted smaller blossoms on body. Intricately detailed bronze base w/caryatids, exhuberantly scrolled bronze handles and scalloped bronze top rim. Marked “EG, 33” for Edouard Gilles, a master of the Barbotine School and "19731, AL" on the…