Lot 34 , A pair of Chinese Transitional wucai vases and covers, Shunzhi / early Kangxi, late 17th century

A pair of Chinese Transitional wucai vases and covers, Shunzhi / early Kangxi, late 17th century, painted with flowering chrysanthemums amongst foliage, below a band of ‘cracked ice’ and leaf lappets, unglazed base, 38cm high, damage
Provenance - handwritten letter, stating that the vases were given to a Mrs. Mary Collins by sailors at Greenwich, around 1770-1780.
£400-600

Condition:
Typical minor glaze faults throughout. One cover has a section at the rim that has been broken away and re glued with some splinter losses in this area, it also has a shallow glaze chip to the finial and a splinter chip to the rim. Other cover has two very small splinter chips to the inner rim. Both covers have fritting to edges. One vase has a piece missing at the rim with a large hairline crack emanating from it, approx 23cm. Another horizontal crescent shaped hairline crack crosses this one approx 12cm down from the rim. There is a shallow chip to the rim. The other vase has a section at the rim that has been broken away and re attached, previously stapled but with holes now filled. A large hairline crack starts at the rim, runs around the body and reaches back at the rim, on the opposite side. There are eight staples and some filler along this crack. Several light surface scuffs and scratches throughout.

Sold for £2,200