TWO BLUE AND WHITE 'YEN YEN' VASES QING DYNASTY, 19TH CENTURY

each of tall baluster form with an ovoid body tapering to the splayed foot and surmounted by a tall trumpet neck and flaring rim, skilfully painted with gnarled branches bearing blossoms against cobalt-blue dabs, one decorated with budding and blooming prunus, the other with prunus and magnolia

Collection of T.Y. Chao (1912-1999), and thence by descent in the family.

Right: Ch'ing Porcelain from the Wah Kwong Collection, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 1973, cat. no. 58.

The vase with label C104/2 is of overall good condition, except for a small chip (0.6cm) to the underside of the mouth rim, a V-shape firing line with an associated chip (0.3cm), the body with a small shallow flake (0.1cm) with an associated Y-shape hairline (longest 0.8cm). The vase with extra label WK158(6) is of overall very good condition.
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