Small Chinese blue-on-white porcelain jarlet with bird motif, intact, from the "Hoi An Hoard" (late 1400s). 110 grams, 2-1/4" tall, 2-1/2" diameter. Typical design with blue-painted birds on outstretched wings and plants, flower petals around mouth, background a creamy white, beautifully intact and somewhat glossy, the wreck found and salvaged in the 1990s with most of the porcelain sold at auction by Butterfields in 2000. From the "Hoi An Hoard" (late 1400s), with original sticker #50016.
(200 - 300 USD)