A LARGE MING GREEN AND RED DOUBLE-GOURD VASE, both gourds painted with a continuous arching lotus scroll divided at the waist by a band of stylised key-pattern and leafy sprays reserved on a whorl-pattern ground, the lower gourd with a band of lotus panels above the foot, the upper gourd with a further floral scroll and flower-heads alternating with triangular diaper-pattern cartouches below the mouth (restored), encircled Jiajing six-character mark and of the period