TWO TEADUST-GLAZED VASES QING DYNASTY, 18TH / 19TH CENTURY |

the first, of quadrilobed baluster form, rising from a splayed foot to a trumpet neck flanked by openwork handles, the foot ring left unglazed, applied with a brown wash; the second, of flattened baluster form with elephant-head handles set to either side of the waisted neck below the foliate mouth rim, the glaze a pale yellow-green draining to white at the rim and edges (2)

The quadrilobed vase:
Au Vase Etrusque, Paris (according to label).
Jadestone Gallery, 2011. The flattened baluster vase:
Crane Gallery, Seattle, 2005.

Vase with elephant handles - tiny rim frit, otherwise good condition Quadrilobed vase - minor firing tear on the interior rim with associated very fine haircrack
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