Blue & White Porcelain Tianqiuping Vase - Wave Dragons Small Mirrors The Mihrab design is seen

The Mihrab design is seen all over Moghul Indi and in the Rajasthani palaces

He's painted in a distressed finish

They were originally from Patan in India

Indian chapati boxes were used in the old days as lunch boxes or for packaging up small snacks which the colonials called tiffin

mounted on original wheels

Blue & White Porcelain Tianqiuping Vase - Wave Dragons Small Mirrors The Mihrab design is seenThis reproduction Chinese porcelain tianqiuping bottle vase is decorated in an inverted blue & white glaze. The painting depicts five claw white dragons on a background of waves. Although the dragon was claimed as the symbol of the emperor during the Han dynasty (206 BC 22 AD) it wasn't until the Ming dynasty (1368 0 1644) that the five claw dragon became the specific symbol of imperial might. It was then that the use of the five claw dragon outside