A Kutani double-gourd vase with four mask handles decorated with shaped panels of figures between bands of diaper and leaf pattern -- 21½in.high; a famille verte slender tapering vase with tall everted neck painted with coiled dragons chasing flaming pearls among clouds, a band of flowerhead roundels on a cell-pattern ground to the shoulder -- 27¼in.high; and a famille rose oviform vase with tall neck and moulded ruyi-head handles, painted with a wide band of birds in flight and peacocks among trees and flowering shrubs, below a band of ruyi heads to the shoulder -- 24in.high. (3)

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A Kutani double-gourd vase with four mask handles decorated with shaped panels of figures between bands of diaper and leaf pattern -- 21½in.high; a famille verte slender tapering vase with tall everted neck painted with coiled dragons chasing flaming pearls among clouds, a band of flowerhead roundels on a cell-pattern ground to the shoulder -- 27¼in.high; and a famille rose oviform vase with tall neck and moulded ruyi-head handles, painted with a wide band of birds in flight and peacocks among trees and flowering shrubs, below a band of ruyi heads to the shoulder -- 24in.high. (3)

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