Caption:
Folding hat bowl with flowering plants, Folding hat bowl of porcelain with a scalloped edge, painted in underglaze blue. Flowering plants (chrysanthemum) at the bottom near a rock with clouds above. The inner wall is divided into four broad compartments with a peach or flower branch in a scalloped cartouche, in between four narrow compartments with bows. The inner edge with the same cartouches on napkin work, the narrow pockets with a ruyi motif. The outer edge with three flower vines, the outer wall with four medallions with dots and four narrow compartments. A few chips in the edge. Crack porcelain in blue and white., anonymous, China, c. 1600 - c. 1624, Ming-dynasty (1368-1644) / Wanli-period (1573-1619) / Tianqi-period (1621-1627), porcelain (material), glaze, cobalt (mineral), vitrification, h 5 cm d 14.1 cm d 6.7 cm