A Pair of Cloisonne Enamel Hu Vases
each pear shaped body supported on a tall splayed foot rising to a waisted neck and a flaring mouth with straight gilt rim, the shoulder set with three gilt ram's heads, the main body decorated with various pheasants perched atop pine trees and prunus branches between a band of shaped panels to the neck each enclosing stylized phoenix and alternating kui dragons to the foot, the interior mouth decorated with floral scrolls, all reserved on a celeste blue ground, the underside cast with an apocryphal Jingtai six-character mark within a rectangular panel.
Height 12 1/2 inches.