Blue & White Porcelain Wine Jar - Fish Design Blue & White Porcelain normally Elm

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Comparable Meiji-period examples can be found in museum and private collections

Historical Use: Traditionally used for storing paan ingredients

Works of this nature marked a transition from rigid symmetrical art to a new interest in the human form

It will eventually develop a Verdigris patina

Blue & White Porcelain Wine Jar - Fish Design Blue & White Porcelain normally ElmThis beautiful Wine Jar is made by hand. Before firing it is decorated with leaves and fish. Vases and jars like these are painstakingly made on the potters wheel in the traditional way in small workshops in Jingdezhen which is still the centre for the best quality porcelain. During the Ming Dynasty this is where the Emperor set up his famous imperial kilns. Porcelain is steeped in centuries of Chinese culture and history. Even though pottery