Pair of Chinese porcelain famille verte, wucai octagonal vases, Kangxi period, circa 1690. Photo Marchant

painted on each facet with blue enamel, iron-red, aubergine and yellow lotus flowerheads amongst scrolling foliage on a white ground, framed with an aubergine glazed border, the shoulders with precious objects on different diaper grounds beneath further lotus flowerheads and foliage on the faceted neck, the base unglazed. One 16 ⅛ inches, 41 cm; one 15 ⅞ inches, 40.5 cm high. Price on request

From an important Italian private collection. 

Notes:  A pair of famille verte, wucai octagonal vases of identical size decorated with flowers, birds and insects, the Property of Monsieur and Madame Sylvain L. Goldmuntz, previously from the Pinna Collection, was sold by Sotheby’s Monaco in their auction ofBelle Collection de Porcelaines de Chine, 4th March 1990, lot 355; another is illustrated by R. L. Hobson in Chinese Porcelain and Wedgwood Pottery, with other Works of Ceramic Art, A Record of the Collection in the Lady Lever Art Gallery, Port Sunlight formed by The First Viscount Leverhulme, no. 421, pl. 52, p. 68.