A pair of Chinese export blue and white Mandarin palette covered vases, late 18th century, the pair of slender baluster covered vases or jars with seated Buddhist lion-form finials, enameled front and back with reserves depicting maidens and children at leisure pursuits in a garden pavilion overlooking a lake, surrounded by underglaze blue scrolls and ruyi borders accented with gilt and flower head; both with repairs, one with loss to finial. Height 31 cm