PROVENANCE: From St Matthew, Louisville, KY Private Collector. Measurements: Height: 9.5 cm, Diam.: 22.6 cm Chinese Ming Dynasty XuanDe Blue & White Alum Red Dragon Motif Porcelain Bowl. The bowl has an open mouth, rounded lip rim, thick, deep arced body, raised with round foot ring and slight concave. Hand painted ornamentations are rendered in alum red base color which contrast against pale white fine color, depicted of imperial five claws dragon flying careening through cumulus clouds above thrashing Li-shui waves. The glaze has smooth texture and moisturizing, glossy quality. Which attracting unceasingly admiration.The Under-base bears a reign mark, a six under glazed blue script characters reign mark. Made in The Years XuanDe Reign Period of The Great Ming Dynasty.