A PAIR OF CHINESE BLUE AND WHITE MAIDEN AND SONGBIRD VASES, QING DYNASTY, LATE 19TH CENTURY

The ovoid body raised on three shaped feet rising to a short everted rim, the shoulder applied with opposing lion-mask handles, painted with six alternating cartouches depicting a beauty reading in a garden before a balustrade fence and songbirds perched on a blossoming prunus branch, all beneath a band of bats and musical stones, wear commensurate with age, minor chips to feet(2)17cm high