Also the blue color of the inner bowl appears to go over the lip .. not present on the first bowl .. Joy.
It's one bowl. There is a lip. Optical illusion folks... let me post more pix. As I said, the bowl is also pinched but I can not capture that in an image. Here's the interior:
Ok... well, thanks for forwarding it along to @Mat! It is a deep rich beautiful blue that's for sure.
Now I'm really confused! Google image search for an antique blue white bowl leaves me next to nothing similar at all. I guess I'm just going to describe it as "possibly anything from Persian to Chinese" for my eBay listing LOL
I should have prefaced my statement with, "I am not a pottery person." It still looks Persian to me, but I wouldn't take my word for it.
With that foot and the decoration on the outside it is definitely Japanese, I guess from the beginning of the 20th c.