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A PAIR OF FAMILLE ROSE RITUAL EWERS Qianlong Each made in the form of a Tibetan Lama's milk-tea pot, the tall cylindrical body rising to a shaped, peaked rim and decorated with foliate meander bearing exotic blossoms arranged in three registers divided and bordered by narrow ribbed bands painted in iron red and gilding, the similarly decorated spout terminating in a gilt monster mask and with a large blossom at its base, the two small monster masks protruding from the opposite side pierced through the mouth for the insertion of a ring, interior of the shaped rim glazed turquoise 18.1/8 and 17.7/8in. (46 and 45.5cm.) high (2)