CHINESE EXPORT PORCELAIN HAND-PAINTED FAMILLE ROSE VASES, LOT OF TWO, each of baluster form having one side featuring multiple columns of black hand-brushed characters, comprising one example featuring a woman with three frolicking children and one example depicting a group of five women in a garden setting and having two applied red-painted guardian lion/foo dog handles. Late 19th/early 20th century. 17" HOA. 

From the private collection of Robert Bruce, Charlotte Co., VA.

Woman with children example undamaged; women in garden example having a faint rim hairline.