PROVENANCE: from Lynchburg, VA Private collector. Measurements: Height: 8.3 cm, Diam.: 19.4 cm Chinese Ming Dynasty Ji Blue Dragon Motif Porcelain Bowl. The bowl has an open mouth, rounded lip rim, thick, deep arced body, raised with round foot ring and slight concave. Hand painted ornamentations are rendered in dark blue base color which contrast against pale white fine color, depicted of Imperial dragon are borne 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.