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A LARGE PAIR OF MANDARIN PALETTE MOULDED VASES
CIRCA 1785
Each of hexagonal form and decorated with gilt-edged garden scene panels moulded with figures taking tea, conversing or amused at young boys, smaller garden scenes above and the covers and rims with iron-red landscape vignettes, all reserved on an iron-red, gilt and grisaille Y-diaper ground and beneath Buddhist lion knops, with carved wood stands (gilt knops rubbed, one with rim hairline)--21¼in. (54cm.) high (2)
CIRCA 1785
Each of hexagonal form and decorated with gilt-edged garden scene panels moulded with figures taking tea, conversing or amused at young boys, smaller garden scenes above and the covers and rims with iron-red landscape vignettes, all reserved on an iron-red, gilt and grisaille Y-diaper ground and beneath Buddhist lion knops, with carved wood stands (gilt knops rubbed, one with rim hairline)--21¼in. (54cm.) high (2)