PROVENANCE: Hattiesburg, Mississippi, Private collector.

Dimensions: Height: 4 cm, Diam: 8.5 cm

Chinese Ming Dynasty Xuande Blue and White Porcelain Small Bowl. The porcelain potted with a shallow body, slight deep, thick, flaring rim with angled cavetto elevated the steep sides upward the close mouth rim, raised on ring foot base slight concave. Hand painted ornamentations are rendered in clean white base color which contrast against blue fine color, depicted of lotus flowers blooms interspersed foliage and scrolling interlocking tendril. 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 under glazed blue script characters reign mark, enclosed within blue ring line. Made in The Years XuanDe Reign Period of The Great Ming Dynasty.

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