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A PAIR OF MASSIVE FAMILLE ROSE BALUSTER VASES
LATE QING DYNASTY
Of slender, tapering form surmounted by trumpet necks, each elaborately painted and enameled with two famille rose rectangular panels of phoenix perched on rockwork by blossoming peony and pairs of various other birds, including two ducks in a pond, divided by smaller, similarly decorated circular and octafoil panels, and below a deep blue ground, enameled ruyi collar at the shoulder, the waisted neck with two further painted oval panels below a turquoise-ground ruyi band and bats amidst clouds encircling the rim, all reserved against a dense ground of puce and yellow wan-fret scattered with stylized shou characters and bats, with pink and turquoise stylized lappets encircling the foot--54in. (137cm.) high (2)
LATE QING DYNASTY
Of slender, tapering form surmounted by trumpet necks, each elaborately painted and enameled with two famille rose rectangular panels of phoenix perched on rockwork by blossoming peony and pairs of various other birds, including two ducks in a pond, divided by smaller, similarly decorated circular and octafoil panels, and below a deep blue ground, enameled ruyi collar at the shoulder, the waisted neck with two further painted oval panels below a turquoise-ground ruyi band and bats amidst clouds encircling the rim, all reserved against a dense ground of puce and yellow wan-fret scattered with stylized shou characters and bats, with pink and turquoise stylized lappets encircling the foot--54in. (137cm.) high (2)
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