Small Bowl with Decoration of Two Boys on the Interior and a Stylized Lotus Arabesque on the Exterior

Chinese

Porcelain with interior decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue and with gold enamel painted on a red enamel ground added to the exterior at a later date; with spurious underglaze cobalt-blue mark reading "Da Ming Yongle nian zhi" within a single circle on the base.

Ming dynasty, 1368-1644