PROVENANCE: From Private estate collections of Jullias Phillips (1923 - 2017), Marietta, Georgia. When WWII started, Jullias worked at the Charleston Navy Yard helping build ships to protect our country and the world. They moved to Charleston, one of America oldest city with many historical building and antiques. Start from here, Jullias love to collect porcelains and many other antiques, and many year later they came back to Marietta, Georgia. Dimensions: 3-1/8" H x 7-1/4 (each) Pair of Chinese Ming Dynasty Period, Jiajing famille verte dragon bowls. Potted with a shallow body, slight deep, thick and bulbous body, with angled cavetto elevated the steep sides upward flaring mouth rim, raised on a small round, with slight concave footing. The exterior hand painted ornamentations are rendered in clean white under glazed base color which contrast against enamel design famille verte design color, depicted of cart on the garden, beside the a deer around flowers blooms, bellow dense tree, all in salubrious landscape. Enclosed with auspicious rectangles motief on the upper mouth. The Lines of the drawings are clear, the light and dark shades are subtle. The colors are harmonious, elegant and exquisite, the composition is sophisticated, simply a feast for the eye. The clay is very fine, with a brilliant glaze finish that was applied by a meticulous, the shape is uniformly proportioned. Mark on base, a six under glazed blue seal script characters reign mark, enclosed within double fine blue rings, Made in The Years of JiaJing Reign Period of Great Ming Dynasty.