A pair of blue and white powder-blue-ground cylindrical vases. Kangxi

A pair of blue and white powder-blue-ground cylindrical vases. Kangxi

Each painted around the body with four quatrefoil panels alternately enclosing arrangements of scholar's objects, waterside landscape scenes and flowering chrysanthemum stems, all reserved on a powder-blue ground heightened with gilding (one neck repaired, other neck cracked). 25.8cm (10¼in) high. (4). Sold for £1,920

The covers are wrongly illustrated in the catalogue, and belong to another lot.

Bonhams. Chinese & other Asian Works of Art, 4 Mar 2009. Knightsbridge www.bonhams.com (Copyright © 2002-2009 Bonhams 1793 Ltd)