A PAIR OF LARGE FAMILLE ROSE BALUSTER JARS AND COVERS

A PAIR OF LARGE FAMILLE ROSE BALUSTER JARS AND COVERS
YONGZHENG (1723-35)
Each vase with broad shoulder tapering to an ogee section above the foot, brightly and richly enamelled on each side with a large basket of flowers including chrysanthemum, magnolia, peony, peach blossom, gourd and finger citron, with smaller flowers visible through the openwork sides, alternating with a blue 'cracked-ice-pattern' vase of composite flowers beside a cluster of smaller vases, vessels, furniture and scholars' utensils, including books and scrolls, the shoulder with a collar of shaped floral multi-patterned lappets and the neck with four floral sprays, a pink floral band above a narrow sepia band around the foot, the domed cover similarly decorated below the underglaze blue and gilt lotus bud finial, one with body crack, one neck restored
25 in. (63.5 cm. ) high (2)