A pair of gilt-bronze mounted Chinese blue-glazed baluster vases and covers The porcelain 19th century

each of slender baluster form, covered overall in an attractive dark blue glaze, domed cover, mounted with gilt-bronze

Examined with mounts attached: one cover has a 12mm., wide shallow flake to the underside of the rim, both cover rims probably reduced, and glaze scratches to both vases, but in particular to the shoulder of one.
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