PROVENANCE: From private collectors in Plano, Texas. Measurements: Height: 1.5cm, width: 12 cm Chinese Ming Dynasty Jiajing Blue and White Porcelain Lidded Box. Potted unto a slightly flattened square box, with rounded on each corner, correspondence lid, raised from square sides over a wide cavetto Inner flange circumscribed around the containers lip allows for a perfect fitment on the each rim. Hand painted ornamentations are rendered in clean white base color which contrast against blue fine color, depicted of mother hold son bellow dense tree in a ruyi petals and surrounded with auspicious pattern. The Under-base bears a reign mark, a six under glazed blue script characters reign mark, enclosed within blue rectangles lines. Made in The Years JiaJing Reign Period of The Great Ming Dynasty.