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Chinese blue-on-white porcelain bowl (repaired), Ming Dynasty, very rare provenance.

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Chinese blue-on-white porcelain bowl (repaired), Ming Dynasty, very rare provenance.
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Chinese blue-on-white porcelain bowl (repaired), Ming Dynasty, very rare provenance. 175 grams, 2" tall and 5¾" in diameter. With indescribable design in very deep and vivid blue under glaze, the gently undulating rim nearly intact save for the loss of a small triangular piece and the restoration of a larger section glued back into place, this impressively beautiful bowl is one of few pieces recovered from this obscure wreck of a homebound Dutch East Indiaman by Robert Sténuit and team in 1976. Recovered from: Witte Leeuw (White Lion), sunk in 1613 off St. Helena Island, west of Africa.. Pedigreed to the Sotheby-Parke-Bernet (London) auction of March 15, 1977, with sticker that says "Recovered from the wreck of the Dutch East-Indiaman, sunk off the Island of St. Helena in 1613" (oddly omitting the ship's name).