Blue & White Porcelain Tall Ginger Jar - Double Happiness Rugs This reproduction Chinese dragon vase

This reproduction Chinese dragon vase is hand made on the potters wheel in the traditional way

These 19th century brass supari boxes are from the Indonesian Archipelago and would have been used for storing betel nut supari

11 x 5 x 13 (wxdxh cms)

The cabinet is finished in a vibrant red lacquer created from the sap of the Rhus verniciflua tree

Another similar example can be found on page 193 of The Everyday Art of India by Robert F

Blue & White Porcelain Tall Ginger Jar - Double Happiness Rugs This reproduction Chinese dragon vaseThis beautiful reproduction Chinese blue and white porcelain ginger jar has been decorated with the 'double happiness' symbol on a beautifully detailed floral background. Double happiness means 'Joy and Happiness' and is often on objects gifted at weddings. It is hand made and hand painted using traditional techniques handed down the generations in small workshops in Jingdezhen, the porcelain capital of the world. It is still the centre for the best