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A Cantonese baluster vase
with everted foliate neck, phoenix handles and moulded guei dragons around the shoulder, painted and gilt with a shaped panel of mandarin ducks swimming in a pond amongst lotus flowers and grasses, below numerous butterflies and a kingfisher in flight, the reverse with a long tailed bird perched on the branch of a fruiting tree, all on a ground of precious objects and scattered fruit and flower sprays -- 24in. (61.5cm.) high, 19th Century.
with everted foliate neck, phoenix handles and moulded guei dragons around the shoulder, painted and gilt with a shaped panel of mandarin ducks swimming in a pond amongst lotus flowers and grasses, below numerous butterflies and a kingfisher in flight, the reverse with a long tailed bird perched on the branch of a fruiting tree, all on a ground of precious objects and scattered fruit and flower sprays -- 24in. (61.5cm.) high, 19th Century.