PROVENANCE:
From the Estate of Gerrik Baters, Jr. of Cartersville, GA (1928 - 2020). Veteran, Accountant, Private Collector. After several attempts he found success and a path towards a new career. He also was surrounded and fascinated by the ornate porcelain pieces that she had collected over the years. Learning the history, studying the marks and identifying certain aspects of these items became his passion. His friends called him the professor of Porcelains. While his knowledge has passed with him many of his treasures are left behind.

Dimensions: 2.125in H x 10.875in W x 10.875in D

Chinese Ming Dynasty Period, Jiajing blue & white figurines plate. The Porcelain potted in shallow vessel form, with broad wide central interior, rounded cavetto gently tapering to open wide, with straight and flaring opening lip, raised with round and concave footing. All reserved hand painted ornamentations are rendered in clean white underglaze base color which contrast against the blue fine color. The Interior center medallion decorated with some figure and folk in many pursuit on the field grass below the ruyi clouds and vapor, interspersed with dense tree. The outer rim adorned with several flying crane interspersed with scrolling tendril and Chinese Shou calligraphy. Double fine blue rings banded and enclosed on the center interior and the outer rim. A characteristic heaped and piled effect, the underglaze grayish-blue concentrates in certain areas, bubbling through the surface of the glaze and turning a deep blue-black. This inadvertently gave texture, energy, and shading to the design. The Lines of the drawings are clear, the light and dark shades are subtle. The clay is very fine, with a brilliant glaze finish that was applied by a meticulous, the shape is uniformly proportioned. The Under-base bears a reign mark, a six underglaze blue script characters reign mark, Made In The Years of Jiajing Reign Period of The Great Ming Dynasty.

Over all in EXCELLENT condition, with normal anomalies in nature, Normal consider ages and wears.
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