Dimensions (cm): Height: 15 Diameter: 11.5 Pair of Chinese Ming Dynasty Period Blue & white high stem cups. Potted with a shallow body, deep, thick and small bulbous body, with angled cavetto elevated the steep sides upward straight mouth rim, raised on a slight tall cylindrical splayed round with deep concave. All reserved hand painted ornamentations are rendered in clean white under glazed base color which contrast against the blue fine color, depicted of elder relaxing on the field bellow dense tree and wine jar, surrounded with flowers blooms, grass, and vapors. A characteristic heaped and piled effect, the under glaze grayish-blue concentrates in certain areas, bubbling through the surface of the glaze and turning a deep blue-black. The clay is very fine, with a brilliant glaze finish that was applied by a meticulous, the shape is uniformly proportioned.