Vases. The first, of the high-shouldered body with an everted rim and twin gilt bat handles, four-character maker's mark to the base; the second, with a galleried rim with two gilt bands, waisted neck flanked by a pair of pierced gilt handles, four-character Tongzhi mark to the base; both painted to one side of the body with foo lions, inscribed to the other side with a different poem. {Height of first: 11 1/4 inches (28.6 cm)}. [Loss of gilt].