PROVENANCE:
from the Estate of Senior Chief Petty Officer Aviation Engineer Thomas Clanton, USN Ret., (1935-2019), of Scout Trace, Blairsville and a former lifelong resident of Sarasota, FL. The son of the late Willard Clanton and the late Karen Clanton. Tom was a veteran of the US Navy having given thirty years of service for his country. While in the USN he was stationed in Olongapo Philippines and at Ching Chaun Kang Air Base in Taiwan flying aboard the P3 Orion. The P3 was used for anti-submarine operations and as reconnaissance missions. Since then, Tom begins fascinated and collecting many Oriental Chinese Antiques and Fine Arts.

Dimensons: 3in H x 4.75in W x 4in D

Chinese Ming Dynasty Period, WanLi Blue and White dragon motif porcelain lidded box. Lidded trinket box cast into shaped rectangle body, thick potted, slight dome rim straight to wide opening rectangle, Flange circumscribed around the containers lip allows for a perfect fitment of the covering with double fine blue thick rings lines on the each rim. All reserved in hand painting ornamentations, rendered in clean white under glazed ground color which contrast against the blue design color. The exterior adorned with snarling huge imperial five claws dragon careening through cumulus clouds above thrashing Li-shui waves in a blue and red color dragon squama rounded the bowl to chasing flaming pearl amidst floral foliate. Dragon is the symbol of the Emperor, the Son of Heaven, eternity, Yang and Yin, male vigor and fecundity, the Li-shui wave pattern which is known to be the abode of dragons. The foot rim reveals the cut edges during the making process, and the base left unglazed with grayish creme-brown ground and dark spots of firing marks. The underside unglazed, revealed the pale-creme groundand dark grayish brown spotted firing marks and edge-cut foot rim. The clay is very fine, with a brilliant glaze finish that was applied by a meticulous, the shape is uniformly proportioned. The underside unglazed, revealed the pale-creme ground revealed and dark grayish brown spotted firing marks and edge-cut foot rim. Mark on receded central base, a horizontal six underglaze blue script characters reign mark, enclosed within rectangular border, Made in the Year of Wanli Reign Period of Great Ming Dynasty. Mark on lid rim, a six under glazed blue script characters reign mark, WanLi Reign Period of Great Ming Dynasty.

Over all in EXCELLENT Condition.
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