Pair of enamelled vases famille rose “Palace scenes”, Qing dynasty

Enamelled porcelain profusely decorated with palace scenes full of characters inscribed in rectangular cartouches, on a background full of lotus flowers and peonies.

The wide, circular mouth turns outwards and is finely decorated with three sinuous flowering branches. This narrows into an elongated neck on which are arranged two pairs of animals facing each other in relief, as decorative handles. The profile is balustraded and widens at the shoulders to taper at the base, slightly flared, and decorated with geometric motifs arranged in succession on which appear large lotus flowers. 

Height: 60.8 cm; Mouth diameter: 20.7 cm; Base diameter: 21.5 cm

It presents restoration one of them in the mouth.