Two Chinese crackle-glazed waterpots

Reference: ART1002625

The first is a beehive waterpot decorated in gilt with bats and clouds below a spearhead border at the rim. The base with an apocryphal Qianlong mark. The second is shaped as an oblong jar with two gilt beast-head handles and stands on four gilt feet, the base with an apocryphal Qianlong mark. Both vessels are covered in a finely crackled greyish blue glaze.