A Garniture of Three Chinese Export Famille Rose Vases, Circa 1780. The flattened baluster vases have a chicken-skin ground with shaped panels to front and back enameled in famille rose depicting Chinese Mandarin figures on a balcony of a house with, in one a landscape scene in the background and in the other buildings. ;The handles are in the form of stylized dragons in gilt and iron-red with elongated famille rose panels below with similar decoration to the larger panels. ;Around the foot is a rectangular panel in iron-red of European buildings amongst trees. ;Surrounding the handles are further panels in famille rose of birds on branches.. ;The covers are surmounted by a sitting kylin on a green flat top with below, on all four sides, shaped panels in iron-red depicting a river and branches. ;One vase has been repaired and chips to the edges of the covers have been filled in invisibly. Height: 13 inches x 4 1/2 inches width x 2 1/2 inches depth

Antique Porcelain & Pottery
Antique Vases