A MING-STYLE BLUE AND WHITE STEMBOWL, painted around the exterior with a band of carps swimming amidst lotus, below a band of overlapping flower-heads around the rim, a band of fire-scrolls above a boiling sea at the stem, the interior with a central circular panel containing a pair of fishes, below a band of lotus meander, below a diaper-pattern band around the rim (two rim cracks, five rim chips), 17th Century