A PAIR OF LARGE CHINESE YELLOW-GROUND FAMILLE ROSE VASES

The massive vases mightily constructed with an ovoid body sweeping up to a waisted neck and flared rim, the exterior luxuriantly decorated in the famille-rose palette with large stylised flower heads, including lotus, iris and honeysuckle, all wreathed by feathery foliate scrolls, a cluster of peaches issuing from one large bloom in the centre, the floral blooms interspersed with beribonned anbaxian emblems, including a double-gourd, a fan, a sword and a basket of flowers, all above an upright elongated ruyi-shaped lappet border encircling the base, the neck decorated on both sides with a stylised floral bloom suspending a chime with a double-fish and a tasselled wan symbol attached to it, the neck flanked by a pair of scroll handles in the form of a stylised dragon, all between three bands of various petal lappet bands encircling the rim, base and splayed foot respectively, the footrim bordered with an iron-red 'classic scroll' band, the opulent design delicately picked out in white and shaded tones of rose-pink, blue, green and red and reserved on a ground of brilliant lemon-yellow ground finely engraved with dense sgraffiato feathery arabesques, the interior and base enamelled turquoise, the base inscribed with a Qianlong four character mark with a double square.