A Pair of Chinese Cinnabar Lacquer Vases, four-sided baluster vases with flaring trumpet necks, carved in intricate relief to depict sages with attendants or with beauties in landscape settings, surrounded by floral meander, lozenge patterns, bands of key fret pattern at the neck, foot, and rim, opposing peony handles along neck, black lacquer interior and base, one with crack to lacquer on shoulder and along corners, tiny chip to corner rim, on wooden stands, property of the consignor since the 1970's, approx. 25 1/2 by 13 cm, 10 by 5 in.