Medium, Chinese blue-on-white porcelain bowl with floral motif in center, ex-"Hoi An Hoard" (late 1400s). 896 grams, 2" tall, 8-3/4" diameter. Highly glazed intact bowl of flowers-and-leaf design, the blue color sharp, crazing under the glaze, 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 114887.
($125-200)