PROVENANCE: From waldorf, MD Private Collector. Measurements: Height: 19.2 cm, Diam.: 15.8 cm Chinese Ming Dynasty WanLi Wucai Dragon Motif Porcelain Incense Burner. The porcelain potted in shallow vessel form, thick and deep, globular body, with broad wide central interior, short neck, flaring rounded open mouth rim, emerge S shape flanked on the shoulder create majestic handle, raised with short three elephant legs. Hand painted ornamentations are rendered in clean white base color which contrast against wucai design color, depicted of imperial five claws dragon flying careening through cumulus clouds above thrashing Li-shui waves. The glaze has smooth texture and moisturizing, glossy quality. Which attracting unceasingly admiration. The Neck bears a reign mark, a six under glazed blue script characters reign mark. Made in The Years WanLi Reign Period of The Great Ming Dynasty.