A PAIR OF GILT-METAL MOUNTED CLOISONNE ENAMEL VASES QING DYNASTY, EARLY 19TH CENTURY

each body of baluster form rising from a high spreading foot to a short waisted neck, brightly polychrome decorated around the exterior with a pair of long-tailed birds perched upon an old gnarled blossoming prunus tree, all above bamboo issuing from rockwork and reserved on a turquoise blue diaper ground, the mounts of simple pedestal form