Celadon Glazed Porcelain Tea Pot - Song Dynasty Style Small Boxes Framed Japanese Woodblock Print dated

Framed Japanese Woodblock Print dated 1859 showing an actor playing a Samurai in a kabuki play - Utagawa Kunisada

Its simple design features circular brass fittings and traditional Chinese carving on both sides

They were exported to India as lighting for large homes and palaces in the 19th Century

North East India

Celadon Glazed Porcelain Tea Pot - Song Dynasty Style Small Boxes Framed Japanese Woodblock Print datedSong Dynasty Style Celadon Porcelain Tea Pot a very fine quality reproduction of the original. Made by hand in Jingdezhen, its a great piece for a collector of Chinese porcelain The origins of Celadon began at the end of the Han Dynasty (206 BC 220AD) but it wasnt until the Jin Dynasty (265 420) that the creation of celadon excelled as an art form. Celadon was favoured by nobles and the wealthy classes due to a myth that it would break if poisoned