Pair of Qianlong mark and period vases

This pair of Chinese porcelain vases had been salvaged from a house owned by a religious cult. No, not the Falun Gong, but the Panacea Society, a ‘charity’ founded in Bedford after the First World War who believed that Christ would make his second coming to the town of the eponymous van.

One of their many affluent converts had bequeathed this pair of Qianlong mark and period vases, one …

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