Blue & White Porcelain Ginger Jar - Peacocks Campaign Furniture particularly Shanxi kang tables with

particularly Shanxi kang tables with carved fronts

elegance and refined craftsmanship to both traditional and contemporary interiors

A similar inferior example in different woods can be found in "Chinese Furniture: A Guide to Collecting Antiques" by Mazurkewich - Fig 518

There is a compartment in his back as is common with ancestor figures which would have held offerings such as paper money or herbs

and variations in grain that speak to its age and long use

Blue & White Porcelain Ginger Jar - Peacocks Campaign Furniture particularly Shanxi kang tables withBlue & White Porcelain Ginger Jar with Peacocks Design. Peacocks can represent many things in Chinese art but are often associated with divinity, culture, beauty and the goddess Guan Yin. Ginger 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.