Dimensions: 4-7/8" H x 5-1/4" W

Chinese Ming Dynasty Wanli porcelain lidded jar. Thick and having deep bowl body with rendered slightly rounded sides and a large rounded lip, raised on a flat base, with slight flat dome lid. All reserved hand painted ornamentations are rendered in clean white underglaze base color which contrast against the cobalt blue fine color. The main body decorated with vigorous qilin in a grass field interspersed with flowers blooms, dense tree, scrolling ruyi and flaming vapor, all in a salubrious garden landscape, enclosed with auspicious geometric pattern on the shoulder. The dome lid festooned with trashing wavy Lishui water and flower blooms among fresh foliage in a flat round medallion. A characteristic heaped and piled effect, the underglaze grayish-blue concentrates in certain areas, bubbling through the surface of the glaze and turning a deep blue-black. This inadvertently gave texture, energy, and shading to the design. The glaze appearance on the blue painting resembled the texture of an orange peel "ju-pi" (chu-p'i) or a chicken skin. The underside unglazed, revealed the pale-creme ground and dark grayish brown spotted firing marks and edge-cut foot rim. The mouth rim reveals the cut edges during the making process, and the base left unglazed with grayish creme-brown ground and dark spots of firing marks.
Mark on under base, a vertical six underglaze blue script characters reign mark, enclosed within double fine rings, Wanli Reign Period of Great Ming Dynasty.

Over all in EXCELLENT condition.
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