PROVENANCE: Hattiesburg, Mississippi, Private collector.

Dimensons: Height: 52.8 cm, Diam: 26.5 cm

Chinese Ming Dynasty Blue and White Porcelain Gourd Bottle Vase. The porcelain potted in a shape of double gourd bottle vase, with two bulbous bellies conjoined together, round opening lip, raised on ring foot base and slighty concave. Hand painted ornamentations are rendered in clean white base color which contrast against blue fine color, depicted of elders seating on the grass field bellow dense tree, rocky rock an scrolling ruyi clouds. There is not any overlap of the outlines, its well carved, clear, subtle, and distinct.The underside unglazed, revealed the pale-creme ground revealed and dark greyish brown spotted firing marks and edge-cut foot rim.

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