**Originally Listed At $400**

East Asia, China, Ming Dynasty, ca. 1368 to 1644 CE. A pair of hand-built pottery vessels - a plate and a bowl - from the Ming Dynasty, both in the blue on white style. The plate features a tall flower within the basin as well as abstract linear motifs or Chinese characters on the exterior. The bowl exhibits a single Chinese character within the basin, cloud-form motifs along the interior rim, and a verdant landscape surrounding the exterior surfaces. Size (bowl): 6.875" W x 1.7" H (17.5 cm x 4.3 cm); (plate): 6.625" W x 2.8" H (16.8 cm x 7.1 cm)

Provenance: private Lumberton, Texas, USA collection, aquired before 2010

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#170288

Repair to bowl; plate is intact and very good. Both vessels have nicks and encrustations on feet, light pitting to bodies, and light fading to glaze pigment. Nice preservation to decorative motifs in most areas.