THREE WHITE-GLAZED SOFT-PASTE VESSELS QING DYNASTY, 18TH / 19TH CENTURY

the first, a vase of compressed baluster form, supported on a high foot and rising to a waisted neck set with mask form handles to either side below the foliate rim, with molded decoration, the lobed body with a central shou character and scattered auspicious emblems; the second, a waterpot modeled in the form of a coiled catfish; the third, a vase of hexagonal section, the tapering body below sharply canted shoulders flanked by a pair of applied lion-mask ring handles (3)
Height of tallest 13 3/4 in., 34.9 cm