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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 9611267, member: 2844&quot;]Welcome Katherine.</p><p>Your vase is lovely, but it isn&#039;t Yongle.</p><p><br /></p><p>On Ming blue and white ceramics the glaze goes all the way down (I don&#039;t know how to explain this well). On your vase you see a small ring without glaze just above the base, that is a characteristic of later ceramics.</p><p>Ming dynasty decorations were always painted with great confidence. If you look at the motifs around the base on the Sotheby&#039;s vase, you see bold lines, painted with confidence. On your vase those motifs look much more &#039;demure&#039;, for lack of a better word.</p><p><br /></p><p>This is the base on your vase, the glaze stops just above the flat part of the base, a ring of &#039;bare&#039; clay can be seen even when it stands upright. Which means it isn&#039;t Ming dynasty.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]468234[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Below is a detail of Sotheby&#039;s Yongle vase, the glaze goes all the way down:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]468235[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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