TWO FAMILLE VERTE QUADRILOBED BALUSTER VASES
KANGXI PERIOD (1662-1722)
Each attenuated body painted with decorative panels of mythical beasts, birds, flowers and landscapes below a band of mythical beasts on the shoulder, the neck decorated with 'antiques' between the pair of ruyi handles
23¾ in. (60.3 cm.) high (2)
拍品專文
A similar baluster vase with ruyi handles, the panels painted with bird-and-flower motifs, is illustrated by C. Monkhouse, A History and Description of Chinese Porcelain, London, 1901, p. 98, fig. 32.