AN UNUSUAL PAIR OF BLUE AND WHITE PEAR-SHAPED VASES each painted with two European ladies wearing a high wig, holding a flower, each lady sitting on a garden seat centred by a jardinière filled with peonies on a low table, the neck with a blossoming prunus branch beside bamboo issuing from rockwork (one with neck restored, one with neck crack), artemisia leaf mark, Kangxi

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AN UNUSUAL PAIR OF BLUE AND WHITE PEAR-SHAPED VASES each painted with two European ladies wearing a high wig, holding a flower, each lady sitting on a garden seat centred by a jardinière filled with peonies on a low table, the neck with a blossoming prunus branch beside bamboo issuing from rockwork (one with neck restored, one with neck crack), artemisia leaf mark, Kangxi
15cm. high (2)

Lot Essay

Cf. F. Hervouet and Y. Bruneau, La Porcelaine des Compagnies des Indes, p. 106 pl. 4.77, for a plate with similar European ladies

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