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Annamese blue-on-white porcelain bowl with bird motif.

Currency:USD Category:Pottery & Glass / Pottery & China Start Price:500.00 USD Estimated At:600.00 - 900.00 USD
Annamese blue-on-white porcelain bowl with bird motif.
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Annamese blue-on-white porcelain bowl with bird motif. 697 grams, 9-1/4" in diameter and 2" tall. Choice and 100% intact museum-quality piece showing a bird with outstretched wings in the center, floral pattern around edge, 9-petalled design on exterior, turned chocolate color without glaze on base, once encrusted but very carefully cleaned and undamaged (unlike most), just the footprint of one crustacean still adhering. Recovered from: "Hoi An hoard," sunk in the late 1400s off Vietnam