A pair of famille-verte vases, Qing dynasty, Kangxi period. Photo Sotheby's

each pear-shaped body rising from a tall spreading foot to a waisted knopped neck, brightly enamelled with two beribboned floral bouquets below large ruyi-shaped lappets enclosing leafy yellow chrysanthemum scrolls reserved on a green ground, similarly decorated in iron-red around the knopped section of the neck, all below a band of stiff plantain leaves and a chevron border at the rim, skirted around the foot with a spear-shaped band above a chevron border enclosing demi-florets. Quantité: 2 - 37.8cm., 14 7/8 in. Estimation 12,000 — 18,000 GBP.

Provenance: Sotheby's London, 12th July 2006, lot 87.

Sotheby's. Fine Chinese Ceramics & Works of Art, London | 14 mai 2014- http://www.sothebys.com/