A DATED BLUE AND WHITE DEEP BOWL painted around the exterior with a band of ferocious four-clawed dragons chasing a flaming pearl and reserved with a panel bearing an inscription, all below the slightly- everted brown-dressed rim, dated first month of Summer in the yisi year of Kangxi, corresponding to AD 1665 and of the period

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A DATED BLUE AND WHITE DEEP BOWL painted around the exterior with a band of ferocious four-clawed dragons chasing a flaming pearl and reserved with a panel bearing an inscription, all below the slightly- everted brown-dressed rim, dated first month of Summer in the yisi year of Kangxi, corresponding to AD 1665 and of the period
16.5cm. diam.

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The inscription loosely translates as: "Water bowl for the altar of the God of the Five Pestilences; humbly offered by the devotee Fan Yancui".

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