Large, Chinese blue-on-white porcelain bowl with floral motif in center, ex-"Hoi An Hoard" (late 1400s). 764 grams, 2" tall, 10" diameter. Intact decorative bowl of flowers-and-leaf design with original lightly glazed surface, the blue mostly washed out, as made, 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," with original VIPSAL inventory sticker 12683.
($125-200)