iGavel Auctions: Matched Pair of Chinese Porcelain Blue Glazed Meiping Vases, Qing Dynasty ASH1

Modification Notice:
The seller last modified this listing Tue, 03/26/24 @ 11:55:20 AM ET.

Estimate
each with a carved wood stand

Description
$5000-8000

Provenance
Property from the Collection of Solomon and Hannah Shahmoon

Measurements
Height: 7 7/8 and 8 1/8 inches

Weight
3 1/4 lbs.

Condition
each with a few small dark spots, burst glaze bubbles, glaze flakes or frits on the lip, each with some scattered wear, including abrasions or scuffs in the glaze; one with crazing to the glaze and glaze cracks, with a few old chips on the foot and with the glaze reduced on the base or the exterior edge of the foot, and with a pattern of bubbles in the glaze; the other vase with a diagonal vertical hairline crack in the body approx. 4 1/2 inches long and with two shallow nicks in the glaze, each approx. 1/16 inch in diameter, on the body of the vessel just below the shoulder; one stand with a split in the wood on the carving in between the feet

Further Description Added: Fri, 03/29/24 @ 10:23:24 AM ET
Please note that these two vases were originally purchased from Yamanaka & Co., New York by repute.