Details
The group comprises a pair of molded vases with gilt elephant head-form handles suspending loose rings and decorated with floral panels, one with an artemisia leaf and the other with a Buddhist emblem on the base; a small gu-form 'floral scroll' vase with an apocryphal Chenghua mark on the base; and a bottle vase decorated with shaped panels, with a double circle in underglaze blue on the base.
The largest: 7316 in. (18.2 cm.) high
Provenance
The pair of vases and the gu-form vase:
Mary (1904-1981) and Leigh Block (1905-1987) Collection, Chicago.
The Art Institute of Chicago, accessioned prior to 1988.

The bottle vase:
Baerwald Collection, 124/69 (according to label).
Henry C. Schwab (1867-1941) Collection, Chicago.
The Art Institute of Chicago, accessioned in 1941.
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