Blue & White Porcelain Ginger Jar - Chrysanthemum Design Brass Bound Cabinets colourful silk threads on a

colourful silk threads on a cotton base

It is hand made on the potters wheel in the traditional way

Also available to view in the British Museum - Japanese Woodblock of a poem by Fujiwara no Michinobu Ason

understated form

Blue & White Porcelain Ginger Jar - Chrysanthemum Design Brass Bound Cabinets colourful silk threads on aGinger 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