Vietnamese stoneware bowl with floral decoration bowl ca 15th c - 16th c

This is a very nice stoneware bowl made in Vietnam probably around the 15th c - 16th c although it may be a little earlier.  The decoration is in underglaze blue which looks black in places.  There is a scrolling border on the outside and inner rim and a floral design to the centre.

The condition is good but as you can see it has suffered some production faults such as a glaze run to the interior which has left some streaks and a pool in the centre partially obscuring the decoration.  There glaze is beautifully crackled but has flaked in a few places, examples of which you can see in the photos.  The glaze has not covered the bowl entirely and the unglazed areas appear crackle-free.  There is a rough area on the side of the foot, under the glaze, which is fingertip sized and may be where it was held when dipped in the glaze, an adjacent indentation could well be the impression of a finger nail.  

It is quite hard to catch the colour correctly, it is not as cool as it appears in some photos being more of a warm oatmeal colour.  The interior of the base has been coated in a brown slip.  The dimensions are variable as this is another piece with slightly undulating rims (it wobbles a little) but approximately it is at most 6.3 cms high and 14.3 cms in diameter.  It weighs 275 g.

Ref: I13Y0CCLFC