A Chinese copper-red glazed porcelain dishQianlong six-character mark and of the periodWith an everted rim, rounded sides, and a tapered foot, the rose-red glaze thinning to white at the rim and toward the foot, the base with four small paper labels and inscribed with the six-character mark in underglaze blue. H: 1 3/4, Dia: 7 in.PROVENANCE:Given to the present owner's mother by Joseph Paul Gardner, first Director (1933 - 1953) of what is now the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, Mo. They were students together at George Washington Univ. in the 1920s and remained friends until his death in 1972. Gardner was also one of the U.S. Army's "Monument's Men" during World War II. See More