PROVENANCE: Hattiesburg, Mississippi, Private collector.

Dimensions: Height: 47 cm, Diam: 41.5 cm

Chinese Ming Dynasty Jiajing Blue and White Porcelain Lidded Jar. Potted with a large cylindrical vessel, jar shape, globular belly heavy on shoulder, round mouth rim with general helmet dome lidded finial bud, short neck, and raised on ring foot base slight concave. Hand painted ornamentations are rendered in clean white base color which contrast against blue and alum red fine color, depicted of elders seating relax bellow dense tree, with flowers bloom and scrolling interlocking ruyi. The clay is very fine, with a brilliant glaze finish that was applied by a meticulous, the shape is uniformly proportioned.The underside unglazed, revealed the pale-creme ground revealed and dark greyish brown spotted firing marks and edge-cut foot rim. Made in The Years JiaJing Reign Period of The Great Ming Dynasty.

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