PROVENANCE: From the Collections of Franklin Wood (1924-2019) Cartersville, GA. Franklin was born in a small farmhouse near White GA in 1924. After spending his early childhood on the family farm the family moved to the City of Cartersville where he attended school graduating in 1942. Franklin entered the Navy as a cadet aviator. On March 3, 1943, John was commissioned an Ensign and received his Wings of Gold, becoming one of the Navy's youngest naval aviators. In 1947, Franklin was retired from the Navy. He was a civilian flight instructor, supervisor and squadron commander in the Primary Training Squadron Flying Training Air Force. He met his wife Ying Su while she was attending flight training safety courses. Ying Su came from a prominent family in China. Her family blessed her marriage with numerous pieces of porcelains and Jade. The items in this sale are from her collection. Dimensions (cm): Height: 10 Diameter: 9.5 Chinese Yuan Dynasty Period Blue & white High Stem porcelain Bowl. Potted with a shallow body, slight deep, tall, thick and bulbous body, with angled cavetto elevated the steep sides upward flaring mouth rim, raised on a tall cylindrical, with splayed foot base and slight concave. All reserved hand painted ornamentations are rendered in clean white under glazed base color which contrast against the blue fine color, depicted of flying crane through scrolling ruyi clouds and vapors, enclosed with auspicious pattern and repeating wanli motif. This inadvertently gave texture, energy, and shading to the design. The clay is very fine, with a brilliant glaze finish that was applied by a meticulous, the shape is uniformly proportioned.