Pair of Chinese Ming porcelain square bowls. Potted with slight rectangle sides rising from footed base toward flat opening, straight opening, wider to the opening, with recessed footed base. hand painted ornamentations are rendered in clean white underglaze base color which contrast against the cobalt blue color. The fourth exterior side decorated with enormous imperial five-claws dragons striding between fumes clouds and flames above wavy Lishui water. With a blazing pearl looms at the center of the moon flask beneath the dragons gaze. Double fine blue rings lines decorated on each section part of the body. The central interior decorated with Longevity Shou character and Buddhist canopy. The foot rim reveals the cut edges during the making process, and the base left unglazed with grayish creme-brown ground and dark spots of firing marks. The clay is very fine, with a brilliant glaze finish that was applied by a meticulous, the shape is uniformly proportioned.The under base bear a reign mark, a six underglaze blue script characters reign mark, Made in The Years of Jiajing Reign Period of Great Ming Dynasty.Measurements: 3-1/2" H x 9-1/4" W (each) PROVENANCE: From the private collections of Madame Kimball, of Boston, Massachusetts, by inheritance. Records bought from AMEUBLEMENTS ANCIENS, Faiences & Porcelaines, Bibelots & Tapisseries Anciennes, 3 Rue Des Saints-Peres, Paris (6). Dealers in Works of Art & Antiques, Curios, Armor, Plate, China, Jewels, etc. The Kimball's family collections offered at this Auctions can be found on Lot-71, 87, Lot-87 Through Lot-132, Lot-138 Through Lot-141, and Lot-146 Through Lot-153