BD73
Further images
Of flattened baluster form, with flaring necks and slightly everted foot rims, the necks flanked by archaistic chilong handles, each with a domed cover with large kylin finials, painted in shades of underglaze blue with large moulded panels on the bodies decorated with watery landscapes, pagodas and pines in the foreground, fishermen in boats and in the background houses on hills and another pagoda, birds flying overhead, the sides of the vases with four elongated panels similarly decorated and further smaller panels above also with landscapes, all surrounded by scattered flower sprays and reserved on ‘chicken-skin’-style grounds, the covers similarly decorated, the finials, handles and rims highlighted in gilt.
Provenance
Anna Sonja Krüger (1897-1977) possessed these vases from 1922, thence by descent.
