Chinese Yuan Dynasty Period, blue & white double phoenix plate. The Porcelain potted in shallow vessel form, with broad wide central interior, rounded cavetto gently tapering to open wide, with straight and flaring opening lip, raised with round and concave footing. All reserved hand painted ornamentations are rendered in clean white underglaze base color which contrast against the blue fine color. The Interior center medallion decorated with huge flying phoenix among ruyi clouds and vapor. The middle decorated with flowers blooms interspersed with interlocking scrolling foliage. And the outer rim decorated with scrolling interlocking ruyi. Each section banded and enclosed with double fine blue rings. The Chinese phoenix is considered the representative of all feathered creatures. The phoenix is such an important bird in Chinese symbolism that we have a separate section dedicated to it, it is put in the same section as dragons as the phoenix and dragon are paired, the dragon represents the Emperor and yang, the phoenix the Empress and yin. In China it was a god of the winds. The vermillion red phoenix represents the most important of directions - south In symbolism the dragon and phoenix together represent a married couple. The phoenix alone is a symbol of joy and peace, it heralds the coming of auspicious days just like the qilin. This inadvertently gave texture, energy, and shading to the design. This inadvertently gave texture, energy, and shading to the design. The underside unglazed, revealed the pale-creme ground revealed and dark grayish brown spotted firing marks and edge-cut foot rim. The clay is very fine, with a brilliant glaze finish that was applied by a meticulous, the shape is uniformly proportioned.Height:1.75 inWidth: 11.38 inDepth: 11.38 in