A Chinese blue and white jar and cover and a wall vase Qing dynasty, 18th century The jar painted to the front and back within a leaf-shaped panel with grape vines on a cracked ice ground, the cover painted with a lozenge with four circles to each cardinal directions, 19.5cm high, the wall vase painted with leafy peony branches between moulded ruyi heads and ribbed lines and with two bands of moulded ruyi heads, 24.5cm high(2). 清十八世紀 青花開光繪葡萄紋蓋罐及牡丹紋模印壁掛瓶

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