A Pair of Chinese Ming Style Blue and White Dragon Wine Jar Lamps with Shades

19th or 20th century, porcelain hand painted in underglaze blue, rotund jars with four lug handles to shoulder and a small spout, painted with fluid dragons, the jars are drilled and set as a lamps with single lightbulb fixture, fitted into a carved wooden base, with silk lampshade, each topped with a carved red lacquer circular finial with longevity symbol.

30 in., 18 1/2 in. diameter, Jar only 12 1/2 in.

From a Private Collection, Frankfort, Kentucky

Spout on one appears to be restored, same jar with hairline or possible repaired crack to foot rim together with a break and loss from the wooden base; the other jar with chips and some glaze skips to foot rim; jars drilled and fitted as lamps; jars not examined outside of the lamp mounts; lamps not tested.