A Large Chinese Ming Blue and white porcelain fish pond. Sturdily potted in a deep vessel body, with broad wide cavetto everted the steep rounded sides, bulbous on shoulder, tappered gently toward flat dan banded rim, raised upon a flat base. The exterior decorated with hand painting in variegate tone and shades purplish-blue underglazed phoenix amidst floral tendrils and clouds above cressting LiShui wavy water and rocky mountain. Its rim banded with of scrolling pattern. The underside left unglazed, with pale-creme base and orange-brownish firing spots.


Mark on the colar, six blue script -KaiShu- Characters, enclosed by a rectangular frame, JiaJing Reign Period of Great Ming.


Dimension: 18-1/2" H x 19-1/2" Doa

PROVENANCE:
From New Orleans, Louisiana, private collector, French immigrant family inheritance.

Over all in EXCELLENT condition.


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