Extraordinary, Great Chinese Ming Dynasty Period, blue and white immortal porcelain jar. Finely potted in the shape of jar, having thick potted body, large and sturdily potted in a bulbous body, gently tapered on shoulder toward prominent straight neck with wide opening, raised on short splayed foot base. All reserved hand painted ornamentations are rendered in clean white underglaze base color which contrast against the cobalt blue fine color. Blue and white porcelain in Chinese it is called Qing Hua Ci. It is the most important variety of China’s porcelain. It was originated in the Yuan Dynasty. Its color does not easily fade and durability is longer. It used cobaltous oxide as the colorant. Patterns were directly painted onto the inner body and burnt after glaze was applied on it. The exterior delicately fine depicted with immortals in various pursuit on the palace terrace below ruyi clouds, dense tree and flowers blooms. The shoulder decorated with flowers blooms interspersed with foliage, geometric pattern. And the foot base rim festooned with upturning lappets, each section banded and enclosed with double fine blue rings. The Eight Immortals are a group of legendary immortals in Chinese mythology. Each immortals power can be transferred to a power tool that can bestow life or destroy evil. The Immortals are considered to be signs of prosperity and longevity, so they are popular themes in ancient and medieval art. They were frequent adornments on celadon vases. The foot 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. The underside unglazed, revealed the pale-creme ground revealed and dark grayish brown spotted firing marks and edge-cut foot rim. The porcelain conformed all required specimen to be high valued Chinese porcelain wares, with finest material, the whiteness, the glaze, and the carving. Without overlap the outlines of the design, well carved, clear, subtle, distinct, and the shape is uniformly proportioned.Height:14.13 inWidth: 14.75 inDepth: 14.75 in