Blue & White Porcelain Ginger Jar - Birds & Flowers Design Material - Pear Wood hoof feet and perfect proportions

hoof feet and perfect proportions make it beautifully eye catching all complimented by a jet black lacquer

Traditional Layered Lacquer Technique

now beautifully muted with age

Originally it would have been a very huge and very heavy piece of furniture

yellow and pink are only found in modern reproductions

Blue & White Porcelain Ginger Jar - Birds & Flowers Design Material - Pear Wood hoof feet and perfect proportionsGinger Jars are steeped in centuries of Chinese culture and history. Even though pottery developed in China 15,000 years ago, most experts believe that true porcelain which also originated in China didn't emerge in the region until the Han Dynasty (202 BC to 220 AD. Blue and white Ginger Jars are glazed using a transparent porcelain glaze dating back to the Tang Dynasty 618 907 It is believed that the Chinese began creating porcelain Ginger Jars