Two Chinese Imari gin bottles and covers
18th centuryThe first alternately decorated on each face with flowering lotuses, chrysanthemums, prunus and peonies, the sloping shoulder with plum blossoms, the cover also with floral designs; the second alternately with flowering peonies and chrysanthemums and with a stylised landscape with interlocking ruyi clouds, the cover similarly decorated.The tallest: 26cm (1 1/4in) high (4).
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Provenance: Christie's, New York, The Benjamin F. Edwards III collection of Chinese porcelain, 22 January 2002, lot 95.B.F. Edwards Collection nos. 1926 and 2736 (labels).