Chinese Ming Dynasty Period, Jiajing fish motif porcelain jar. The porcelain potted in jar shape, having large and thick potted body, sturdily potted in a bulbous body, ovoid belly on middle, gently tapered on shoulder toward prominent, with short neck straight opening lip, and raised on small round foot base. All reserved in hand painting ornamentations, rendered in clean white under glazed ground color which contrast against the wucai design color. WuCai or five-color shades and tones, brightly painted in WuCai design, Opaque colors around the exterior, between the filling motif decorated in colorful vivid sgrafitto ground of uptala. The main belly adorned with various fish carp swimming on the thrashing wavy lishui water. The shoulder decorated with flying phoenix trough flowers blooms and scrolling interlocking tendril. The foot base rim festooned with water plants and flowers blooms. Scrolling ruyi clouds decorated on the upper mouth rim. Each section enclosed and banded with double fine rings. The Fish Similar sounding to the word "Business" in Chinese, the carp symbolizes a wish for benefit or advantage in business, and accepted to represent longevity, wealth, abundance, and perseverance. The underside unglazed, revealed the pale-creme groundand dark grayish brown spotted firing marks and edge-cut foot rim. The clay is very fine, with a brilliant glaze finish that was applied by a meticulous, the shape is uniformly proportioned. Mark on neck, a horizontal six under glazed blue script characters reign mark, JiaJing Reign Period of Great Ming Dynasty. Dimensions: 16.5"L x 17.5"H