A beautifully matched pair of Chinese vases in Suantouping shape featuring script, black birds, retailer peonies, cherry blossoms and an ancient tree

A beautifully matched pair of Chinese vases in Suantouping shape featuring script, black birds, peonies, cherry blossoms and an ancient tree.

"Suantouping: also called the 'garlic-mouth' vase: The word Santou (蒜头) in Chinese means literally 'garlic bulb'.
The "Garlic-bulb" mouth vase is one that first came into regular use in the creative period of the Mongol Empire's Chinese Yuan dynasty.
It takes a retailer highly regarded and millennia old food known for its curative powers and combines this with functionality of a wine vessel, then expresses this form in technical and artistic expression that no longer needs any practical use." figurines-sculpture.com

10" tall, 5" across, 3" base, no chips or cracks, lovely condition, signed on bottom