AN UNDERGLAZE BLUE 'BALL FLOWER' VASE AND AN OLIVE-GREEN GLAZED VASE QING DYNASTY, 19TH AND 20TH CENTURY

the blue and white vase of baluster form, decorated with scattered ‘ball flowers’, some freely floating, others overlapping in small clusters of two or three blooms, all against an 'ice'-crackle ground; the celadon vase with sloping shoulders below a flared mouth, covered in a thick glaze of olive-green colour suffused with crackles