Details
The first baluster vase is decorated with prunus on a cracked-ice ground; the second vase is decorated with continuous scrolling peony and has an apocryphal Chenghua mark on the base.
Vase with prunus: 7⅜ in. (18.5 cm.) high
Vase with peony: 8 in. (20 cm.) high

Provenance
Samuel Putnam Avery Sr. (1822-1904) Collection, New York.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, accessioned in 1879.
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