Dimensions: Height: 11.5 cm, Diam.: 16cm Chinese Ming Dynasty Xuande Alum Red and Blue and White Dragon Porcelain Bowl. The porcelain potted with a shallow body, slight deep, thick, flaring rim with angled cavetto elevated the steep sides upward the close mouth rim, raised on ring foot base slight concave. Hand painted ornamentations are rendered in clean white base color which contrast against blue and red 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 double blue ring lines. Made in The Years Xuande Reign Period of The Great Ming Dynasty.