A pair of Chinese blue and white 'kraak porselein' bottle vases. Wanli (1573-1619). Photo: Christie's Images Ltd 2010 Each with the pear-shaped body moulded and painted with vertical panels enclosing Symbols and flowering plants, the long neck painted...

A Chinese late Ming blue and white silver-mounted bottle vase . Wanli (1573-1619), the silver 17th Century Of pear shape painted with three standing cranes among lotus scrolls, all reserved on a washed-blue ground, the bulbous neck with silver mounting...