Beautiful Blue and White Lidded Porcelain Canister with Handpainted Ginko Leaf Design lacquer box with dog It opens with ease

It opens with ease

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

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 It opens with easeThis 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