Blue & White Porcelain Jardinière - Trailing Leaf Design Size:34cm Diameter the niche would originally have

the niche would originally have been built into the wall beside a doorway where oil lamps or small candles were placed to illuminate the entrance and welcome guests

Features: Deep floral carving

Frame size 41 x 1

these miniature shrines for private devotion became more common

and this piece is a fine example of a form whose simple

Blue & White Porcelain Jardinière - Trailing Leaf Design Size:34cm Diameter the niche would originally haveThis porcelain jardinire is decorated with a delicate trailing leaf design and is ideally suited for a plant, perhaps an orchid, or a flowing crawler such as a devil's ivy. Traditional Chinese scholarly symbols are interspersed among the trailing leaves including the vase, two golden fish, and the Wheel of Dharma representing prosperity and long life, good luck, and the pursuit of perfection respectively. Each symbol sits atop a blossoming lotus