CHINESE XUANDE BLUE WHITE PORCELAIN FIGURAL BOWL 8.75"W

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CHINESE XUANDE BLUE WHITE PORCELAIN FIGURAL BOWL 8.75"W MING DYNASTY ANTIQUE CERAMIC BOWL Description: Perfect Ming Dynasty Xuan De mark (1426 - 1435 AD) blue and white decoration underglaze porcelain bowl with superb floral and figural designs. Size: Diameter of 22.2 cm (8.75 inches) and it stands for 10 cm (4 inches) high. Conditions: Good. Shipping: $39 to Europe. $36 to North America and Oceania (Canada, USA, New Zealand and Australia). $29 to Asia. $23 to Hong Kong and Macao. $8 within China mainland. Buyers from regions not covered in the above, please contact us for details. We have tried our best to lower shipping cost for buyers. For many deals, actually we lose shipping fees. If you go to EMS site you will find their price --- take USA as example, cny240 for first half kg and cny75 for each additional. That is over $30 plus $10 as usd/cny is declining everyday. Our cost is paid in cny to EMS at a discount of 30% off from Aug 2007. And EMS charge extra fees on extra large parcels. Not to mention PayPal's 4% outrageous fees. We ship from Beijing China. EMS 2-3 working days. Taking the handling time at two ends in consideration, whole transit time is 3-6 days. Tracking info will be forwarded immediately upon shipping. Besides of EMS online tracking service, in any cases that you dont receive package within 7 days upon payment, please contact us for status. Handling and Packaging: free. Insurance: included in shipping. Combination of multiple porcelain items If combination is possible, pay full shipping fees for the first item and save at least $10 up to 40% shipping fees for each additional item. Please contact us for combined shipping fees when you want to purchase multiple items. In some cases, combination is not possible just in order to prevent items from kissing each other in the package. Thanks for your understanding and we both take shipping security as first priority. Refund Policy For any shipment by EMS, In cases of breakage or loss in shipping transit, we send a full refund to buyer. While items broken before your accepting package, please send us photos of both the outer package and broken merchandise. Once we confirm the breakage, full refund will be sent immediately. Our successful shipping rate is 99% or more, please put bid with confidence. Payment: 1:) Paypal. 2:) Bank wire transfer also accepted if total payment amount is over USD300. We refund 5% of the total amount as wire fees. Please contact me for our bank account details if you do not send paypal. Nonpaying policy In cases of nonpaying and no contacting within 7 days of auction close, we have right to relist the item or resell it to other outbid buyers. And nonpaying will be reported to eBay. Nonpaying buyers, who also keep silent for 7 days after reported, stand a good chance to receive negative feedback. Please DO NOT PLACE BIDS IF YOU ARE NOT SERIOUS IN DEALING AND MAKE SURE YOU READ OUR POLICIES CAREFULLY. About Blue and White Decoration Porcelain Ceramists paint designs on white porcelain bodies with writing brushes with a pigment that has cobalt as its coloring material, and then applly transparent glaze to the bodies, and eventually fire them at high temperatures. Blue and white decoration comes into being. In fact, the technique of making this decoration is one of the underglaze decorations. The earliest blue and white porcelain decoration found in China was unearthed in Tangcheng of Yangzhou City. The technique originated from Tang Dynasty. Blue and white porcelain of Ming Dynasty is very rare, though technically it cannot compete with Qing Dynasty porcelain. The peak of blue and white porcelain is Qing Dyn. At the top is Kang Xi (1661 - 1722AD), Yong Zheng (1723 - 1735AD) and Qian Long (1735 - 1795AD). During that time Jing De Zhen kilns were imperial. The biggest feature of that time is that the pictures were in a good arrangement with a strong 3-dimensional effects. It was close... read more

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