Chinese Export Porcelain Mandarin Vases, Circa 1780

Chinese Export Porcelain Mandarin Vases and Covers with Underglaze Blue and Iron-red Diaper Ground.

Circa 1780.

The Chinese Export Ovid-form vases and covers are enameled with a large scene to the front of a standing male figure engaging with a standing woman and two children who stand by the entrance to a tall building with a river, trees, and mountains in the background.

On the reverse, a standing man and a seated woman and a child watch a small child play with a dog also in a wooded landscape. Both sides in the Mandarin pattern with an underglaze blue design leaf surround.

The ground of the vases is covered in an iron-red cell-diaper design overlaid with famille rose flowers.

Underglaze blue is used around the neck with a gilt band surrounding the collared neck. The ground of the covers similarly decorated and the finial is in the form of a seated Kylin.

Condition: Invisible repair to covers and slight loss to gilt around the neck.

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This object is eligible for a Certificate of BADA Provenance

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