A pair of famille rose baluster vases and covers
19th century
Each delicately enamelled with a pair of exotic blue-beaked birds perched on a gnarled prunus branch issuing pink, yellow and purple blossoms extending around the bulging body of the vase, all beneath a border of four large ruyi-shaped cartouches outlined in blue enamel and containing a pink lotus flower amid green scrolls, the covers each with a similar bird on a prunus branch and a further bird in flight beneath the finial enamelled with a lotus flower, wood stands.
Each 40cm (15¾in) high (6).
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