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Lot 109
A Pair of Chinese Rose Medallion Vase Lamps
Lot Details & Additional Photographs
Late 18th or early 19th century, beautifully shaped vases with scalloped rim and lower neck collar, porcelain body finely painted in a famille rose palette with large shaped medallions of elegant Chinese Mandarin figures in a lush outdoor courtyard bordered in black with gilt spirals, the rest of the vase is decorated in flora and fauna together with auspicious symbols and treasure motifs, daisy border around the foot, two foo lions flank the neck and four chilong dragons decorate the upper body, drilled and set into wooden base and mount as lamps with single light fixture, come together with lampshades.

HOA 34 1/2 in.

The Collection of Patricia Sharpe, Charlotte, North Carolina

Overall very good estate condition; vases are drilled and fitted as a lamp; one lamp with break with loss to two lower feet; one lamp with rim chip; vases not examined outside of their lamps mounts.