AN EARLY MING BLUE AND WHITE 'DICE' BOWL with well-potted thick sides, painted around the exterior in strong blue tones with a composite floral scroll comprising peony, lotus, mallow, chrysanthemum, pomegranate and camellia blooms above a band of lotus panels and classic scroll around the foot, all below a double band around the rim, the blue with characteristic 'heaping and piling' (shallow rim chip), Xuande six-character mark in a line below the rim on the exterior and of the period