Blue & White Porcelain Fish Design Jardinière Jewellery finely engraved with concentric geometric

finely engraved with concentric geometric and floral motifs

Traditional design around the border and decorated with deer and birds

Dimensions: W28 x D28 x H58 cm

This Japanese cha dansu tea chest dates from the end of the Meiji Period (1868-1912)

A similar example can be found in Auspicious by Design by Corona (Plate 73)

Blue & White Porcelain Fish Design Jardinière Jewellery finely engraved with concentric geometricThis Chinese porcelain jardinire is decorated with a delicate a provincial fish design and is ideally suited to be used as a flower vase, perhaps an orchid, or a flowing crawler such as a devil's ivy. The fish is a longstanding symbol of wealth in China as the Chinese symbol for fish 'yu' can also be translated to 'abundance'. In ancient China, a fish in water symbolised marital harmony. All our reproduction Chinese porcelain is made in Jingdezhen,