A pair of Chinese Peking white glass bottle vases Qing dynasty

each with a pear-shaped body rising from a straight foot to a garlic-form mouth, the exterior carved in relief with birds sheltering amongst floral branches issuing from jagged rocks in a garden, the base with a four-character Qianlong seal mark, the glass of an opaque white tone

Both vases with short cracks on the foot and minor nibbling along the rim and extremities. The colour of the glass is in a slightly yellower tone compared to the catalogue illustration.
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