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A FINE PAIR OF FAMILLE ROSE 'MANDARIN-PATTERN' VASES AND COVERS
qianlong
Each of flattened quatrefoil baluster shape, enamelled with oval panels of dignitaries, ladies, children and attendants at leisure on pavilion terraces in extensive landscapes, one with a lady seated at a table with a crystal ball, another with a lady seated below a fan-bearer, another with a group around a table with attendants holding musical instruments, and another of a seated lady embroidering a panel, similar smaller panels on the necks and short sides, all reserved on an iron-red, sepia and gilt Y-pattern ground and applied on each side with gilt branch handles issuing smaller branches of elaborate flowers and leaves extensively covering the patterned ground, the shallow domed cover similarly decorated and surmounted by a seated Buddhistic lion finial, extremity restoration, finials restuck
19¾in. (50cm.) high (2)
qianlong
Each of flattened quatrefoil baluster shape, enamelled with oval panels of dignitaries, ladies, children and attendants at leisure on pavilion terraces in extensive landscapes, one with a lady seated at a table with a crystal ball, another with a lady seated below a fan-bearer, another with a group around a table with attendants holding musical instruments, and another of a seated lady embroidering a panel, similar smaller panels on the necks and short sides, all reserved on an iron-red, sepia and gilt Y-pattern ground and applied on each side with gilt branch handles issuing smaller branches of elaborate flowers and leaves extensively covering the patterned ground, the shallow domed cover similarly decorated and surmounted by a seated Buddhistic lion finial, extremity restoration, finials restuck
19¾in. (50cm.) high (2)