A pair of Chinese blue and white bottle vases Kangxi 1662-1722

A pair of Chinese blue and white bottle vases Kangxi 1662-1722, each finely painted in bright cobalt blue, and with two mythical beasts amidst flowers, flames and sacred pearls of wisdom, the tall slender necks with stiff leaves, the bases with flower marks, small rim chips, 25cm. (2) Provenance: an English private collection. Cf. Jörg, Chinese Ceramics in the Collection of the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, p.276, no.319; and R. Hobson, The Leonard Gow Collection, no.62 for similar vases.