PROVENANCE: From Celina, TX Private Collector.

Dimensions: Heigth: 52 cm, Diameter: 30.5 cm

Chinese Yuan Dynasty Blue and White Porcelain Gourd Bottle. Potted in a shape of double gourd resemblance, with two bulbous bellies conjoined together, bulbous lower section finishing into a slender bottleneck at the top, suspending a cylindrical neck, raised on short rectangle foot base and slighty concave. Hand painted ornamentations are rendered in clean white base color which contrast against blue fine color, depicted of gourd bottles surrounded with foliage and scrolling interlocking tendril. Blue and white porcelain in Chinese it is called Qing Hua Ci. It is the most important variety of China?s porcelain. It was originated in the Yuan Dynasty. The underside unglazed, revealed the pale-creme ground revealed and dark greyish brown spotted firing marks and edge-cut foot rim.

Over all in EXCELLENT Condition.
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