GLAZED AND ENAMELED PORCELAIN JAR
Ming Dynasty, Wanli mark and period
Height: 13 7/8 inches (35.2 cm.)

The heavily potted jar of ovoid form with a short neck and lipped rim, supported on a flat, unglazed footring with a recessed, glazed base. Decorated in underglaze blue and iron red, yellow, green and aubergine enamels, the body is painted with a dense pattern of colorful bats amid billowing clouds and flying above a tumultuous sea of blue and green waves emitting spray as they crash around rock and coral formations, painted on one side of the shoulders with a medallion displaying the trigram symbolizing South and on the other side with a similar medallion containing the trigram for North, all beneath a band of narrow lappets, a foliate scroll on the neck and a blue and red leiwen band encircling the mouth. The base painted in underglaze blue with the six-character mark of Wanli within a double line circle

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