Measurements: Height: 21 cm, Diam.: 18 cm Chinese Ming Dynasty Blue & White Elder Motif Porcelain Lidded Tea Pot. Potted in tea pot shape, globular body, short cylindrical neck, with curved spout flanked on the mid belly outward at the short mouth rim, a looped handles flanked on the shoulder, its reverse bowl dome lid finial bud, raised with flat round foot base. Hand painted ornamentations are rendered in clean white color which contrast against blue fine color, depicted of Elder in grass field bellow dense tree, vapors and ruyi clouds. The clay is very fine, with a brilliant glaze finish that was applied by a meticulous, the shape is uniformly proportioned.The underside unglazed, revealed the pale-creme ground revealed and dark greyish brown spotted firing marks and edge-cut foot rim.