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Uncleaned, blue-on-white Chinese porcelain dish with water-bird motif.

Currency:USD Category:Pottery & Glass / Pottery & China Start Price:575.00 USD Estimated At:600.00 - 900.00 USD
Uncleaned, blue-on-white Chinese porcelain dish with water-bird motif.
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Uncleaned, blue-on-white Chinese porcelain dish with water-bird motif. 1235 grams, 11" in diameter and 1-1/2" tall. A shallow (1" deep) bowl with scalloped rim (3/4" wide), with goose-like bird in center walking in a marsh, vines and flowers around that and grassy stuff on rim, matching vines and flowers on exterior and also in the glazed, 2-part base (normally plain) that features in the center 6 Chinese characters that backdate the piece to Ming Dynasty (commonly done throughout the Qing period), perfectly intact and beautiful but encrusted all over with worms and shells and dark residue, certainly could be museum quality if properly cleaned. Recovered from: Unidentified late-1700s/early-1800s wreck off Jolo, Sulu, southwest Mindanao (Zamboanga area, known as the Paticul site), Philippines