China: 15th Century
Height: 4.in [ 12cm ]
An underglaze blue and white stem bowl finely potted with deep rounded sides, flaring at the rim and supported
on a slightly splayed foot, painted to the exterior with four gambolling mythical lions,
within horizontal lines forming the borders, the foot painted with a continuous scrolling band above an
unglazed rim, the interior with a further lion within a double ring roundel.