Ming Style Blue & White Porcelain 7.75" Plate W/Metal Rim & "Ng??i ? n ng s?n b?n v?t tr?i" (Man Hunting Mallard) & Thi (Verse) Scene - Selected vessels were finished with rims of silver as early as the Han dynasty to set them apart from the ordinary and to make them suitable for high class clients, and the metal rim on this piece suggests that the piece was made for someone of nobility. The blue underglaze depicts a mallard hunter, and shows a poem. Measures: 7.75" diameter x 1.75"H.