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Chinese blue-on-white porcelain "kendi" (pitcher).

Currency:USD Category:Pottery & Glass / Pottery & China Start Price:700.00 USD Estimated At:1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD
Chinese blue-on-white porcelain  kendi  (pitcher).
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Chinese blue-on-white porcelain "kendi" (pitcher). 544 grams, about 5½" tall and 5½" in diameter. Very ornate and beautiful porcelain pitcher with bulbous spout (tiny pour-hole), wide-rimmed top and flat base, floral design with 2 lions, fully intact except for tiny chips in rim and spout, with a few barnacles and encrustation, quite lovely, from the same wreck that yielded the big bronze bell in our Treasure Auction #4. Recovered from: Unidentified wreck sunk in the 1780s off Busuanga Island, Philippines. With Philippines National Museum sticker #0096541 on base.