Beautiful Blue and White Lidded Porcelain Canister with Handpainted Ginko Leaf Design lacquer box with dog and makes for a pretty

and makes for a pretty fun addition to the cocktail or holiday spread alongside a big bowl of walnuts

This book is worth owning for the list of patterns alone--- which includes large-scale elements but also such intimate ones as "sitting wall

" There is a hook on the back of the plate for hanging

this handblown glass flask likely once had a leather or perhaps wicker cover over its top half

The wood is about 1/8" thick

Beautiful Blue and White Lidded Porcelain Canister with Handpainted Ginko Leaf Design lacquer box with dog and makes for a prettyThis stunning positively luminous! hand thrown porcelain lidded vessel, with lush cobalt blue hand painted ginkgo leaf design over white glaze, is a truly exquisite thing, but I have not been able to figure out anything at all about it. It is signed exuberantly! on the bottom in a calligraphic manner that I have not been able to decipher, but which seems to indicate a pleased and confident maker! It feels simultaneously very old and quite modern, and