A pair of famille-rose enameled porcelain ginger jars and covers


Republic periodEach painted in bright colors with narrow panels of birds and flowering branches rising on the curving walls within an intricate diaper pattern overlaid with gilt-washed flower heads outlined in iron red, the iron red also used for the tightly drawn spirals in the flower-filled lappet bands along the shoulder and above the foot, the rounded foot pad and recessed base unglazed; each lid painted en suite.27in (68.5cm) high