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A large, famille rose blue-ground baluster vase
19th century
with moulded stylised elephant head and ring handles, decorated with shaped panels of birds amongst blossoming prunus branches and peonies and cranes perched on rockwork and in flight in a garden of pine and further peonies, the shoulder and foot with raised bands, the details to the blue ground heightened in gilt -- 22½in. (57cms) high, underglaze blue Qianlong seal mark.
19th century
with moulded stylised elephant head and ring handles, decorated with shaped panels of birds amongst blossoming prunus branches and peonies and cranes perched on rockwork and in flight in a garden of pine and further peonies, the shoulder and foot with raised bands, the details to the blue ground heightened in gilt -- 22½in. (57cms) high, underglaze blue Qianlong seal mark.
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