A large Pair of Underglaze Red and Blue decorated Vases, Kan...

Hammer

£9,000

A large Pair of Underglaze Red and Blue decorated Vases, Kangxi, each of tall ovoid form, the shoulders sloping inwards to a knopped neck rising to a galleried rim, the bleu souffl?? sides with two large rectangular reserves well painted with a fabulous animal standing on a pierced rockwork plinth rising from breaking waves, interspersed by smaller shaped reserves in between, enclosing images of fishermen, geese, a grasshopper and a songbird H:44cm. Both in fair condition, one with restoration around galleried rim extending just onto neck, the other with two shallow restored breaks from rim. Otherwise good