A pair of small turquoise ground cloisonné bottle vases


19th centuryEach formed with a waisted neck and compressed globular body, the walls surrounded with butterflies, flowering branches and garden rocks picked out in subdued colors against a gilt wire wanzi-diaper ground, the turquoise enamel also applied to the interior neck and recessed base (wear to gilt, chipped).4 7/8in (12.5cm)
|ProvenanceChristie's, South Kensington sale 17250, 7 November 2012, two pieces from five-piece lot 798