Small Blue & White Porcelain Ginger Jar - Butterfly Design Pillars is incredibly skillful and carved

is incredibly skillful and carved in the classic Mughal style and it is rare to see such high quality reproduction pieces now

The top has been replaced with old wood

this form was a decorative emblem popular among merchant chests of the Meiji era

88 x 57 x 51 (wxdxh cms)

divided into segments and inscribed with Devanagari characters relating to planetary or zodiacal influences

Small Blue & White Porcelain Ginger Jar - Butterfly Design Pillars is incredibly skillful and carvedThese reproduction Chinese blue & white ginger jars depict butterflies fluttering around a prominent double happiness symbol. They're hand painted by skilled artists using traditional techniques learned from their families and passed down through generations. Ginger jars are steeped in centuries of Chinese culture and history originating in the Qin dynasty (221 207 BC) when ginger and other luxury Chinese goods became a major export to the Western