A Late Ming Porcelain Bowl, Later Wanli or Tianqi c.1600 - 1627, Jingdezhen Kilns. This small Ko-Sometsuke (old blue and white) bowl with a thick base and thin everted rom is decorated with flowering lotus from a plant pot, either side is a small display of a scholars rock in a pot with grasses. The bases has been cut out, leaving chatter-marks where the finishing tool has juddered, rather than finishing of the base neatly. The base has been left unglazed, the footrim has grit stuck to it, it would have been fired while sitting on this grit. This rough, uneven accidental texture contrasts with the silky surface of the porcelain, something that would have great appeal to the Japanese. Read more about Ko-Sometsuke porcelain below. See Below For More Photographs and Information.