Lot Essay
A very similar double-vase is illustrated by H. Brinker and A. Lutz, Chinese Cloisonné: The Pierre Uldry Collection, The Asia Society Galleries, New York, 1989, no. 304, which has the same marks; another very similar double vase of the same size was sold at Christie's London, 13 May 2008, lot 53; and another example, dated 1786, was sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 26-27 April 1998, lot 562.
Compare also related gilt-bronze and gilt-splashed double-vases of this form, such as a gilt-splashed example from the W.W. Winkworth Collection sold at Christie's London, 16 November 1999, lot 106, and a gilt-splashed double-vase in the Robert H. Clague Collection illustrated by R. Mowry, China's Renaissance in Bronze, Phoenix, 1993, p. 190, no. 40.
Compare also related gilt-bronze and gilt-splashed double-vases of this form, such as a gilt-splashed example from the W.W. Winkworth Collection sold at Christie's London, 16 November 1999, lot 106, and a gilt-splashed double-vase in the Robert H. Clague Collection illustrated by R. Mowry, China's Renaissance in Bronze, Phoenix, 1993, p. 190, no. 40.