PROVENANCE: From St Matthew, Louisville, KY Private Collector. Measurements: Height: 5.4 cm, Diam.: 25 cm Chinese Ming Dynasty Ji Blue Dragon Motif Porcelain Plate. The plate has a broad wide central interior, rounded mouth lip, thick, large, raised on correspondence footed ring base and slight concave. The dish wall is finely carved all in dark blue base color, depicted of Imperial dragon are flying in floating clouds, flame, above Lishui waves. Which attracting unceasingly admiration. The clouds and dragon patterns are vivid and have distinctive characteristics of the times.The underside unglazed, revealed the pale-creme ground revealed and dark greyish brown spotted firing marks and edge-cut foot rim.