PAIR JAPANESE FUKUGAWA PORCELAIN TEMPLE VASES.Meiji period. Well painted with swimming carp decoration in blue and white with gilt highlights; black lacquered necks painted in gilt and rust with reeds. Originally designed as funerary urns, these originally held raven's feathers. - 43 in. high. Estimate $4,000-6,000
PROVENANCE: Château de Chantilly, Chantilly, France
Property of a European gentleman of royal title, collaterally descended from Marie Antoinette, to whom these vases were willed by Madame Wellington Koo (1899-1992), the widow of the last Royal Ambassador from China to the United States.
Signed with mark on foot; restoration to 1/4 of the mouth rim
