A pair of lidded 'imari' porcelain vases and a larger lidded vase

Description:

Japan, Arita, ca. 1700-1730
H. 47-52 cm
All three vases with the same decoration of lotus flowers and scrolls in gold on an underglaze-blue ground behind quatrefoil landscape medallions.
In the family prior to 1970, originally collected by Prince Engelberg von Croÿ (1891-1974) and Princess Maria Benedikta von Schwarzenberg (1900-1981) - One of the smaller vases with a crack on the wall, the lid with a short hairline on the underside of the rim