A PAIR OF CHINESE FAMILLE VERTE BARREL ­SHAPED TANKARDS AND COVERSQING DYNASTY, KANGXI PERIOD (1662-1722) Attached with gilt-bronze mounts, the barrel-form bodies reserved with four shaped panels enclosing birds among flowering peonies and rockwork alternating with three ruyi-head shaped panels on a fish-roe ground, the rim and foot each with a diaper band border, the cover, mounted with a silver-gilt hinges, similarly decorated with a central medallion painted with a butterfly among flowers and rockwork, affixed with large loop handles, each with Reginald Howard Reed Palmer (R.H.R.P) label number '484'each approximately 15cm high (2) Provenance:Bluett & Sons, London, May 1937, purchased for £160-0-0, as recorded in the RHRP China ledger no. C 484The Reginald and Lena Palmer Collection, no. C 484 Compare with a similar example, illustrated in Christiaan J. A. Jörg, Famille Verte: Chinese Porcelain in Green Enamels, Groninger, 2011, cat. no. 143, where the author notes that this type of tankard was probably only produced for a brief period and all existing examples appear to have similar designs.清康熙 五彩花卉圖杯一對拍品來源：英國帕瑪家族顯赫私人收藏，家族檔案編號C484號，1937年5月以160鎊的價格購自倫敦知名古董商Bluett & Sons

one in good condition with only wear to mounts the other with repair to cover and piece re-attached to rim