A PAIR OF OCTAGONAL IMARI VASES AND COVERS decorated in iron-red enamel and gilt on underglaze blue with shaped panels of birds among flowers and foliage beneath a band of large formal floral lappets to the shoulder, the domed covers similarly decorated and surmounted by shishi finials (both covers with some old damage and restoration)

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A PAIR OF OCTAGONAL IMARI VASES AND COVERS decorated in iron-red enamel and gilt on underglaze blue with shaped panels of birds among flowers and foliage beneath a band of large formal floral lappets to the shoulder, the domed covers similarly decorated and surmounted by shishi finials (both covers with some old damage and restoration)
late 17th/early 18th Century
63.5 cm high (2)

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