Chinese Qing Dynasty Period, Qing blue & white landscape porcelain lidded helmet jar. The porcelain potted in jar shape, having thick potted body, sturdily potted in a bulbous body, ovoid belly on middle gently tapered on shoulder toward prominent, with short neck opening, with helmet dome lid with finial bud, two Chinese beast mask handles flanked on the shoulder, and raised on small round foot base. All reserved hand painted ornamentations are rendered in clean white underglaze base color which contrast against the cobalt blue fine color. The main body and the dome lid decorated with the pavilion beside tree, rocky hill, and majestic Hua san mountain with scrolling ruyi, Lishui waterfall, peace river, all in mountain landscape. Many mountains in China are sacred, some to Daoist, some to Buddhists and some to both In folk religion each mountain has its own deity associated with it. The pictogram character for mountain sea represent an all encompassing phrase for the whole world shan Hai. Mountains represent the yang element in the landscape and as such connect to the governing yang element in China the Emperor. Mountain is one of the eight trigrams in Feng Shui and Yi Jing. Of these Taishan is considered the most important and stones from the mountain were often placed in towns across China as a lucky charm. The dome lid rim reveals the cut edges during the making process. The clay is very fine, with a brilliant glaze finish that was applied by a meticulous, the shape is uniformly proportioned. The Under-base bears a reign mark, an Eight underglaze blue script characters mark.Height:12.88 inWidth: 9.38 inDepth: 9.38 in