Chinese Ming Dynasty Wucai porcelain lidded jar. The shape having thick potted body, sturdily potted in a bulbous body, gently tapered on shoulder toward prominent straight neck with wide opening, covered with cylindrical lid and crowned with simply bud finial, raised on flat base. All in a clean white underglaze base color, hand painting in 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 sgraffito ground of uptala. Depicted five-claws dragon flying amidst flames with a ruyi cloud, above cresting wavy Lishui water, flower blooms with intercluding vines. The Dome decorated similar with the main body added auspicious pattern. Dragon is the symbol of the Emperor, the Son of Heaven, eternity, Yang and Yin, male vigor and fecundity, the Li-Shui wave pattern which is known to be the abode of dragons. The composition is sophisticated and the colors are a feast for the eye. The glaze appearance resembled the texture of an orange peel "ju-pi" (chu-p'i) or a chicken skin. The clay is very fine, with a brilliant glaze finish that was applied by a meticulous, the shape is uniformly proportioned.The under-base bears a reign mark, a vertical six underglaze blue script characters reign mark, Made in The Years of Jiajing Reign Period of The Great Ming Dynasty.Measurements: 20-1/8" H x 16-5/8" Diam.PROVENANCE: From the private collections of Green family, of New York, by inheritance. Estate from ST LAWRENCE ANTIQUES, Riverside DR, Ogdensburg, New York. The Green's family collections offered at this Auctions can be found on Lot-278 Through Lot-302.