A LARGE PAIR OF BLUE AND WHITE MING-STYLE HU VASES, each with moulded taotie mask handles suspending fixed rings, painted with tiers of scrolling lotus between lotus petals around the base and centralised foliate fronds around the shoulder, lotus meander around the neck and breaking waves around the rim, the cobalt applied to simulate 'heaping and piling' (one restored), Qianlong seal mark, 19th Century