A PAIR OF CHINESE BLUE AND WHITE VENETIAN GLASS STYLE BOTTLE VASES

KANGXI 1662-1722

Each with a compressed body surmounted by a tall neck flanked by openwork strap handles, painted with large floral and foliate sprays, with broad bands of birds perching in branches to the flaring rims, 26.2cm. (2)

Cf. W R Sargent, Treasures of Chinese Export Ceramics from the Peabody Essex Museum, pp.122-123, no.35 for another vase of this type; see also S Marchant & Son, Recent Acquisitions 2003, p.55, no.36 for another pair of vases with the same design.