PROVENANCE: From Bluffton, SC Private Collector. Dimensions: Heigth: 4.3 cm, Diameter: 23 cm Chinese Ming Dynasty XuanDe Blue and White Alum Red Dragon Porcelain Plate. The plate has a broad wide central interior, thick and round lip, raised on correspondence footed ring base slight concave. Hand painted ornamentations are rendered in clean white color which contrast against blue 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, enclosed within fine blue ring line. Made in The Years XuanDe Reign Period of The Great Ming Dynasty.