A Chinese Chenghua red and white Porcelain cup, finely potted with rounded cavetto elevating steep sides leading to slightly flared rim, raised on footed ring base. The plain clean-white underglazed exterior contrast decorated with delicate carmine-red underglazed hand painting of sea grass and algae. Mark on base, a vertical six underglazed blue script -KaiShu- Characters, enclosed by double rectangular lines, ChengHua Reign Period of Great Ming. Dimensions: 2-1/8" H x 3-1/2" Diam.