PROVENANCE:
From the Estate of Gerrik Baters, Jr. of Cartersville, GA (1928 - 2020). Veteran, Accountant, Private Collector. After several attempts he found success and a path towards a new career. He also was surrounded and fascinated by the ornate porcelain pieces that she had collected over the years. Learning the history, studying the marks and identifying certain aspects of these items became his passion. His friends called him the professor of Porcelains. While his knowledge has passed with him many of his treasures are left behind.

Dimensions: 2-5/8" H x 4-3/8" Diam.

Chinese Yuan famous blue and white lidded round box. Stoutly potted Chinese porcelain unto a slightly flattened round box, with rounded wide cavetto, correspondence dome lid, raised from rounded sides over a wide cavetto Inner flange circumscribed around the containers lip allows for a perfect fitment of the covering. hand painted ornamentations are rendered in clean white underglaze base color which contrast against cobalt blue fine color. The top dome surface decorated with eight symbols petal cartouches, each enclosing thick lines a floral bouquet form. The top dome rim decorated with auspicious pattern and geometric motif. The lower body decorated with scrolling tendril, various foliage and flowers blooms, enclosed with double fine blue rings lines. A characteristic heaped and piled effect, the underglaze cobalt blue concentrates in certain areas, bubbling through the surface of the glaze and turning a deep blue-black. This inadvertently gave texture, energy and shading to the design. The glaze stopping before the foot rim, revealed the pale-creme ground, with orange and grayish firing marks. The clay is very fine, with a brilliant glaze finish that was applied by a meticulous, the shape is uniformly proportioned.

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