A pair of Chinese-style ironstone vases and covers with shi-shi finials printed and painted with Oriental figures at various pursuits on a flower-scattered-ground interspersed with exotic animals including giraffes, elephants, dragons, pheasants and goldfish alternating with panels of spurious Chinese test, the borders foliate-moulded and printed and painted with flowers, spurious Chinese character mark, 19th Century -- 25½in. high