AN OUTSTANDING AND LARGE PAIR OF FAMILLE ROSE 'BIRDS ON BRANCHES' BALUSTER JARS AND COVERS Qianlong period, circa 1740 Of robust baluster shape, with wide rounded shoulders below a short very slightly waisted neck, the domed cover with a wide rim and large bud-shaped knop, the body painted with two large twelve-lobed cartouches equally spaced to either side of the wide body, both painted with a pair of birds, probably crested Myna birds, one in the branches of a magnolia, the other flying nearby above richly delineated iron-red and gilt and rose-enameled peony heads, the cartouches reserved against a backdrop of branches of primarily peony but including chrysanthemum and prunus, the shoulders with alternate multi cell pattern ruyi-shaped lappets of pink, turquoise and iron-red with gilt, a turquoise cell band at the very slightly spreading foot with wide ruyi-shaped panels with vessels and objects, the covers with futher floral sprays and a lotus bud knop. 26in (66cm) high (2). Footnotes: 乾隆時期 約1740年 大件粉彩開光《雀鳥花卉》紋帶蓋將軍瓶一對 Published Cohen & Cohen, Take Two!, Antwerp, 2017, pp. 62-63, no. 25 出版： 倫敦Cohen & Cohen古董行，《Take Two!》，安特衛普，2017年，頁62-63，圖版編號25