Shende Tang four-character marks, Republic Period The flat-back vases finely potted with baluster bodies raised on slightly splayed feet, tapering to a waisted neck beneath a flaring mouth, flanked by a pair of gilt-decorated handles, each of the central white rectangular panels inscribed in clerical script with a poem followed by two iron-red seals Qian and Long, enclosed within a border of lotus, lily and iris blossoms borne on an undulating foliate scroll, all reserved on a yellow ground. Each 18cm (7in) high (2).