Decorated in gilt and polychrome enamels, each lady finely modeled in mirror image, holding in one hand a gu-form vase candle holder, the other hand securing the vase; both ladies with long finely carved black hair piled high on the head in a double-loop knot secured in front with a floret ornament, dressed in long robes decorated with gilt medallions on a pink ground and tied with a turquoise sash above a further skirt with delicately painted gilt medallions and lozenge forms on an iron-red ground. Period: Qianlong (1736?1795), c. 1760-1780. Height: 41 and 41.5 cm.