A pair of large Chinese Canton famille rose vases of baluster form with everted foliate rims, each applied with gilt guardian lions and chi-long dragons, painted in the typical palette of polychrome enamels with c-scroll panels filled with officials and courtesans in palace interiors and others with natural history designs of birds, insects and flowers reserved against gilt ground with green scrolls, late Qing period, 62 cm high (A/F)