PROVENANCE: From Audubon, New Orleans Private Collector. Dimensions: Heigth: 11 cm, Diameter: 13.2 cm Chinese Ming Dynasty Blue and White Sea Water Porcelain Lidded jar. Potted into jar shape, having thick and tall, globular body, heavy on shoulder gently tapered on short neck, round mouth lip with lidded dome flat lid and raised on ring foot base slight concave. Hand painted ornamentations are rendered in clean white base color which contrast against blue fine color, depicted of thrashing lishui wavy waves and auspicious pattern. There is not any overlap of the outlines, its well carved, clear, subtle, and distinct.The underside unglazed, revealed the pale-creme ground revealed and dark greyish brown spotted firing marks and edge-cut foot rim.