A pair of famille-rose 'bird' tianqiuping Republican Period

each of globular form rising to a slightly flared cylindrical neck, painted to the exterior in vibrant enamels with twelve magpies, their feathers well defined, some in mid-flight, others perching on branches of gnarled blossoming prunus and crab-apple trees, growing amid slender bamboo stalks and sprigs of lingzhi fungus,  the flowers picked out in shades of pink, white and yellow, the base inscribed with an apocryphal Qian long six-character seal-mark in iron-red