A MASSIVE PAIR OF CHINESE CANTON FAMILLE ROSE VASES

19TH CENTURY

Typically enamelled with panels of figures engaged in courtly duties, reserved on dense grounds of fruiting and flowering sprays, with phoenix, butterflies and other insects, the foot with a band of formal lappets, moulded to the shoulders with gilt dragons, the handles formed from further pairs of iron-red dragons, 77.5cm. (2)