A fine pair of blue and white bottle vases

EARLY 18TH CENTURY

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A fine pair of blue and white bottle vases
Early 18th Century
The pear-shaped bottle vases painted in cobalt-blue with Buddhistic symbols suspending from ribbons at the shoulder, the tapering neck with densely trailing stems of flowers between narrow ruyi-and lotus-pattern borders
30.6 cm. high (2)

Lot Essay

A similar vase is illustrated in Christiaan J.A. Jörg, Chinese Ceramics in the Collection of the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, The Ming and Qing Dynasties, 1997, p.108, pl.103

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