A NEAR PAIR OF CHINESE LAVENDER-GROUND JARS SIX CHARACTER QIANLONG MARKS AND PROBABLY LATE IN THE PERIOD Each with an ovoid body decorated in low relief with five fu characters painted in underglaze blue and outlined in white, the short waisted necks encircled by continuous bands of ruyi-heads, all reserved on a lavender-blue ground which extends to the bases, the base of one with a shop label, 21.9cm and 21cm. (2) Cf. J Ayers, Chinese and Japanese Works of Art in the Collection of Her Majesty the Queen, vol.II, p.508, nos.1281 and 1282 for a similar pair of jars with a celadon ground. 清乾隆（可能） 藍釉福字罐 一對 《大清乾隆年製》青花篆書款