A pair of Chinese Export famille-rose hexagonal baluster vases and covers circa 1775

each well-painted with panels of oriental figures at various pursuits, reserved within underglaze-blue foliate borders on a gilt filigrée ground, the covers reserved with Meissen-style landscape vignettes and surmounted by seated hound knops, the rims with later gilt-metal mounts. One knop re-affixed, minor hair crack to one cover.

Sold, Sotheby's, London, June 26, 1979, lot 198
Sold, Sotheby's, New York, January 24, 1995, lot 1111

Covers - one has had the dog finial broken off and glued back on. The dog also has a shallow frit/chip to the end of its nose. The other cover has a haircrack to the top under the dog. Both covers have brass mounts, these are old but have been later added and the edges of both covers are ground back on at least one side. Both dogs and covers have some rubbing to the gilding. Vases - both have slight rubbing to gilding but are otherwise in good condition. Both are glued to modern wood bases.
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