One extensively cracked. Both with minor firing flaws and wear to enamels. 190213 Provenance: Bequeathed by the vendor's grandmother, Lady Ethel Margaret Stronge, to the vendor's mother Mrs Rose Ethel Richardson (nee Stronge) of Tynan Abbey, County Armagh, Northern Ireland, and then subsequently to her son, the present vendor. Lady Ethel Margaret married Sir Frances Stronge who joined the diplomatic service in London in 1879 (paper proof in the National Archive FO17 997). Records show him as serving in the diplomatic service in Peking in the same year. He served in the Supreme Court in Shanghai in 1885. From 1897-1907 he served in Central America. A letter with the family, dated 29 March 1925 refers to these two vases purchased some 40 years earlier at the latest.

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