Description: PAIR OF CHINESE CANTON FAMILLE ROSE VASES, QING DYNASTY (19TH CENTURY) of baluster form with an upturned rim and molded and gilded faux elephant handles to neck, painted in the center of the body with gilt-highlighted underglaze blue and white figure of a gentleman and two boys admiring scholar's object, the neck decorated with further gilt-accented blue and white scholar's objects all interspersed with fruit and flower sprays and butterflies and reserved on a celadon ground (2) - h:17?in.
Provenance: Collection of Sue Singleton Bloxom and the late M.T. Bloxom, Smithfield, Va.