A pair of massive Canton famille rose vases

LATE 19TH CENTURY

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A pair of massive Canton famille rose vases
Late 19th Century
Enamelled in vivid colours with rectangular panels enclosing figure scenes on a ground of scattered fruit and flowers, the shoulders applied with two pairs of qilin in gilt, the cylindrical neck applied with a lion and cub forming the handles below a foliate everted rim (small firing crack retouched at the rim)
88 cm high (2)

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