A PAIR OF FAMILLE ROSE BALUSTER VASES, each enamelled with a cornucopia of flowers beneath butterflies, divided by two high-relief dragon handles, and above a moulded band of iron-red petals, the flaring foot with a similar band of petals and the widely flaring rim with a moulded spiral design above iron-red and gilt spear-heads (one neck restored), Qianlong | Christie's

Lot 127

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A PAIR OF FAMILLE ROSE BALUSTER VASES, each enamelled with a cornucopia of flowers beneath butterflies, divided by two high-relief dragon handles, and above a moulded band of iron-red petals, the flaring foot with a similar band of petals and the widely flaring rim with a moulded spiral design above iron-red and gilt spear-heads (one neck restored), Qianlong

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A PAIR OF FAMILLE ROSE BALUSTER VASES, each enamelled with a cornucopia of flowers beneath butterflies, divided by two high-relief dragon handles, and above a moulded band of iron-red petals, the flaring foot with a similar band of petals and the widely flaring rim with a moulded spiral design above iron-red and gilt spear-heads (one neck restored), Qianlong
24cm. high (2)

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See M. Jourdain and R. Soame Jenyns, op. cit., for a vase of similar unusual shape, originally in the Ionides Collection at Buxted Park, Sussex

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