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: 6.5 cm, Diam.: 7 cm Chinese Ming Dynasty Xuande Blue and white Flowers Motif Porcelain Bird Feeder Jar. This porcelain has an round open mouth with a slightly out-turned lip, short thick neck leads to a convex bulging mid belly with a tapered to bottom, raised on the round foot base slight concave. Hand painted ornamentations are rendered in clean white base color which contrast against blue fine color, depicted of big flowers blossom with foliage and scrolling tendril. With deep and light glaze rendering, these blue and white patterns show up an ink painting artistic effect. The Shoulder bears a reign mark, a six under glazed red script characters reign mark Made in The Years Xuande Reign Period of The Great Ming Dynasty.