PROVENANCE: John Gorse (1945-2020) of Charleston, SC. A business entrepreneurs, private collectors. A retired as senior vice president for legal and regulatory affairs in 1981. After retirement he focused his efforts on revitalizing the local area and philanthropy. His entrepreneurial drive continually motivated him to privately invest in real estate ventures and many other businesses. In addition to his impressive business acumen, he was a man of artistic pursuits, collecting antiques, porcelains, oriental rugs, and artwork of many different genres. Dimensions: Height: 9.2 cm, Diam.: 66.5 cm Chinese Ming Dynasty Jiajing Blue and white 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 in clean white base color which contrast against cobalt blue fine color, depicted of Imperial dragon are borne in floating clouds, flame, above Lishui waves. Each section mark off and enclosed with double fine blue rings lines. 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.