PROVENANCE: From St Matthew, Louisville, KY Private Collector. Measurements: Height: 42.5 cm, Diam.: 25 cm Chinese Ming Dynasty Blue and White Dragon and Phoenix Motif Porcelain Double Gourd Bottle Vase. The porcelain potted in a shape of double gourd bottle vase, with two bulbous bellies conjoined together, round opening lip, raised on ring foot base and slightly concave. A characteristic heaped and piled effect, the under glaze greyish-blue concentrates in certain areas, bubbling through the surface of the glaze and turning a deep blue-black. This inadvertently gave texture, energy, and shading to the design.The underside unglazed, revealed the pale-creme ground revealed and dark greyish brown spotted firing marks and edge-cut foot rim.