covered with an evenly applied, pale-olive celadon glaze, showing fine crazing China, 15th centuryThe deeply and skillfully carved design shows a circumferential central scroll of lotus flowers accompanied by their leaves and tendrils, above a petal lappets border that encircles the slightly waisted base, and beneath two smaller borders with aligned leaves. The convex and recessed base is glazed in celadon and surrounded by a slanted, unglazed foot rim. The inner of the jar is completely glazed as well. Shape: BalusterDimensions: Height 28.8 cm., diameter 33 cm.Condition: Superb condition with only very little wear and some minor firing irregularitiesProvenance: From a prominent Chicago private collection.Auction result comparison: Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art Part I and Part II Including Property from the Arthur M. Sackler Collections. Christies, New York, 24 March 2011, lot 1646. (compare with a jar from the same group, but with a peony scroll, and still retaining its original lid)明代龍泉刻花蓮花開片罐大型厚重胎罐,刻花,淺灰綠色釉,開片中國,十五世紀造型:罐尺寸:高 28.8 厘米., 直徑 33 厘米.品相:保存狀況極好,僅極少磨損,一些燒製時產生的不規則形來源:來自芝加哥一位明星人物私人收藏