Dimensions: 11-7/8" H x 8-1/2" Dia. PROVENANCE: From Private estate collections of David Frederick Boyd, of Marietta, Georgia (1935 - 2018). Served in the United States Army, thereafter, employed by a fortune 500 company and remained there for the rest of his working career. He is admired for Habitat for Humanity activist and a prominent antiques collector, mostly Chinese Antiques and European furniture at his large Victorian house in Georgia. Chinese Ming Dynasty period, black ink dragon famille verte porcelain pear vase. Potted in Chinese traditional YuHuChun shape vessel, the pear shaped bottle vase, slight ovoid body, a bottom-heavy body tapered gracefully to slender waisted neck, with wide flaring mouth rim, supported on short small foot base, slight concave. The exterior decorated with hand-painting in famille verte under glazed base color which contrast against the black ink fine color, depicted of snarling huge imperial five claws dragon careening through cumulus clouds above thrashing Li-shui waves in a black color dragon squama to chasing flaming pearl amidst flames and vapors. Famille Verte meaning the green family. Over glaze enamel decoration on export and Imperial porcelain. The clay is very fine, with a brilliant glaze finish that was applied by a meticulous, the shape is uniformly proportioned. Mark on base, a six under glazed blue script characters reign mark, enclosed within double fine rings, Made in The Years of Xuande Reign Period of Great Ming Dynasty.