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An exceptionally nice antique Chinese plat, or shallow bowl, with blue Celadon glaze, and an amazing central spiral design, itself surrounded by variety of hand written or drawn characters, and done in an almost black-blue color.The design is carried on around the outer rim, and finished with two paralell circles surrounding the base.Again, similar in color to other pieces have listed previously, this could possibly be Kangxi Dynasty, but am most definitely not certain.A lovely plate, measuring about 17.75 cm's in diameter, no damage to speak of, though some firing blemishes, and one very fine short hair-line crack, though it looks more like glazed over pencil mark so am not entirely sure.These antique Oriental items am selling on behalf onan old Chinese gentleman who has been collecting them for most of his adultlife, and only now, in his 90’s does he wish for them to start going to goodhomes.As to the authenticity of these items;Before retiring he worked within the government as acollector and assessor of all antiques they gathered during the times of warand unrest, and as such, gathered great amount of knowledge.These antiques he gathered himself, privately, duringthe course of his later life, from all over the world, and as such, the itemsobviously held some interest & value to him.Sadly, he is not with us to assist in selling, asbased overseas, as well as not speaking English, and so we are attempting toacquire any information through research on each item, that may or may not becompletely correct, but will point possible clients in the right direction.I hope this helps in giving some background.All Items listed for sale or auction can be viewed before-hand& collectedin our shop based in St Albans, Hertfordshire.The shop is ;The Vintage Emporium/The St Albans Vintage Emporium,221 Hatfield Road,Fleetville,St Albans,Hertfordshire,AL1 4TB      Tel. 01727 760095.We are open days week, have lovely café and massivevariety of vintage and retro Item’s on sale, from clothes& furniture, trinkets & kitchenalia, to jewellery & art.Do come and visit us, parking at the back, and have look round.