CHINESE TWO-PART PORCELAIN VASE partly open-worked, probably around 1900 H: 30cm

A PAIR OF FAMILLE ROSE ‘MILLEFLEUR’ VASES, LATE QING TO REPUBLIC A PAIR OF FAMILLE ROSE ‘MILLEFLEUR’ VASES, LATE QING TO REPUBLIC China, 1900-1949. Each with ovoid sides rising from a short foot to a waisted neck with lipped rim, the high shoulder applied with two iron-red and gilt bat-form handles. Finely painted in bright enamels with an ovoid panel enclosing Shoulao carrying his staff and holding a longevity peach to one side and Lin Daiyu carrying a flower basket on the other, all against a rich millefleur design on a gilt ground. Provenance: From a Swedish private collection. Condition: The first vase is in excellent condition with only minor wear and firing flaws. The second vase shows a glaze hairline (not going through the body and hardly visible to the naked eye), a minuscule old repair to one bat ear only, and microscopic firing flaws to the enamels – it is overall still in good condition. Both vases are slightly tilted and show only minimal wear to the gilt. Weight: 941.1 g and 891.9 g Dimensions: Height 29.2 and 29.1 cm The countersunk bases each with an apocryphal iron-red six-character seal mark da Qing Qianlong nianzhi. Auction result comparison: Compare a related deer-handled single vase of hu form (47.8 cm high), also with an apocryphal Qianlong mark and panels enclosing figures against a millefleur design, dated to the Republic period, at Bonhams San Francisco in Fine Chinese Works of Art on 24 June 2014, lot 8331, sold for USD 15,000. Compare also a related scroll-handled vase, 35 cm high, also with an apocryphal Qianlong mark and panels enclosing figures against a millefleur design, dated to the late Qing dynasty, at Bonhams Hong Kong, 24 November 2010, lot 263, sold for HKD 108,000.