Measurements: Height: 3.125" Width/Length: 15.75" Diameter/Depth: 11.25" Chinese Ming Dynasty Period, Jiajing blue and white dragon motif porcelain daffodil pot. Potted in square rectangle, shallow vessel form, thick and large, with broad wide central interior, rounded cavetto gently tapering to open wide, with a straight open lip, the whole piece is raised on square corner shallow foot. The exterior decorated with hand-painting in cobalt blue under glazed, depicted of snarling huge imperial five claws dragon careening through cumulus clouds above thrashing Li-shui waves in a dark blue color dragon squama to chasing flaming pearl amidst flames and vapors. And the inner central with officer in various pursuit among field. A characteristic heaped and piled effect, the under glaze grayish-blue concentrates in certain areas, bubbling through the surface of the glaze and turning a deep blue-black. The underside unglazed, revealed the pale-creme ground revealed and dark grayish brown spotted firing marks and edge-cut foot rim. Mark on upper mouth rim, a six blue script characters reign mark, Jiajing Reign Period of Great Ming Dynasty.