A PAIR OF BLUE-GLAZED VASES AND AN INCENSE BURNER LATE MING – EARLY QING DYNASTY |

the pear-shaped vases with a garlic mouth neck, covered with a blue glaze save for a chilong applied in relief around the neck and left in the biscuit; the incense burner similarly decorated with a reverse-decorated qilin

One chip to a chilong’s limb on one of the garlic-mouth vases. Original firing flaws such as two firing cracks to the incense burner and a further one to the chilong on one vase. Adhesions to surface.
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