PROVENANCE: From waldorf, MD Private Collector.

Dimensions: Height: 9.7 cm, Diam: 21.5 cm

Chinese Qing Dynasty Tongzhi Blue and White Dragon Porcelain 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. Warm and uniform yellow glaze applied to the surface, only the outer bottom is white glazed. Yellow is an imperial color in Chinese Dynasty color symbolism, representing power, royalty, prosperity and the earth in traditional Chinese culture.The Under-base bears a reign mark, a six under glazed blue script characters reign mark, enclosed within double blue rings lines. Made in The Years TongZhi Reign Period of The Great Qing Dynasty.

Over all in EXCELLENT condition.
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