iGavel Auctions: Chinese Porcelain Wucai Jar with Scholars in a Landscape, 17th Century & a Cizhou Type Jar AFR3SHLM

Estimate
$500-800

Description
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Provenance
Property from a New York City Collection

Measurements
Height: 13 inches

Weight
9 1/2 lbs.

Condition
with a curving vertical crack from the mouth through one side of the vessel approx. 15 inches long, with filled in chips and losses and with associated branching hairline cracks, including a horizontal one running 3 1/2 inches along the base of the neck; with some chips on the mouth of the vessel, including some filled; with a curving hairline crack near the base of the vessel, 9 inches long; with chips or apertures in the glaze, likely related to old staple restorations to the body of the vessel, some filled; the cizhou type jar with a crack through the side of the vessel and with hairline cracks on the mouth and foot of the vessel, and with some chips, the lip possibly polished or reduced; as illustrated