each of ovoid form, decorated with composite floral scrolls between ruyi and lappet bands, the neck with upright plantain leaves and keyfret bands, below ruyi heads at the rim, all reserved on a bright yellow round, the base with a four-character mark reading wuchen nian zhi (corresponding to 1868 or 1928)

Crewe House, London, Inventory, 1913, Vol. I, p.289, in The Yellow Drawing Room; A pair of Famille-de-rose oviform Vases with Spreading tops enamelled in flowers and scrolls with Grecian key border and éventail neck in green, pink and colours on a yellow ground, the interior green. 14½" high.;
‘West Horsley Place II’, Country Life, 1 April 1939, p. 331, illustrated in the Drawing Room.
West Horsley Place, Surrey, Inventory, 1938, Vol. 1, p.69, in the Drawing Room; Pair 15” Canton yellow ground ware Vases painted with chrysanthemums. £15-15. 

The vases are in good condition with the exception of some crazing to the yellow ground and minor flaking to the enamels.
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