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: 8 cm, Diam.: 46 cm Chinese Yuan Dynasty Blue and white Flori Motif Porcelain Charger. The plate has a broad wide central interior, flori form 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 blue fine color, depicted of Flowers blossom, foliage in every layer and thrashing Lishui waves on the outer center. Each section mark off and enclosed with double fine thick blue lines. Which attracting unceasingly admiration. Blue and white porcelain in Chinese it is called Qing Hua Ci. It is the most important variety of China’s porcelain. It was originated in the Yuan Dynasty. The glaze is lustrous and glittering, giving a sense of fresh and bright. The underside unglazed, revealed the pale-creme ground revealed and dark greyish brown spotted firing marks and edge-cut foot rim.