AN EARLY MING BLUE AND WHITE LARGE JAR, guan, the thickly potted slightly compressed sides painted in strong blue tones with budding and blooming branches of tree peony, gardenia and camellia, each issuing from a pierced ornamental rock, with and divided by either linghzi, bamboo or wild grasses below bees in flight, the slightly waisted foot with a border of overlapping plantain leaves, the shoulder with stylized lotus petals, the short neck with a band of classic scroll, all divided by double line borders (body crack, glaze blemishes retouched), Zhengtong