A group of three polychrome enameled porcelain vessels


Late Qing/Republic periodThe first, a cong-form vase, biscuit-enameled in the famille jaune palette with butterflies and flowering plants, the unglazed base stamped China (chipped); the second a small square-sectioned planter raised on four corner feet, painted in gilt and iron red with shou characters, bats and musical chimes amid composite lotus flowers and leaf scrolls, the base bearing a six-character Tongzhi mark in iron-red seal script (firing cracks, discoloration); the third a hexagonal-sectioned bowl with Eighteen Luohan painted in famille rose enamels on the exterior walls and turquoise enamel across the interior well, the recessed base also bearing a six-character Tongzhi mark in iron red seal script.11in (28cm) height of vase