Tiny Blue and White Porcelain Landscape Cachepot
Tiny Blue and White Porcelain Landscape Cachepot this piece is a tiny cachepot/orchid pot with a "shan shui" landscape motif. These blue and white porcelain vessels were inspired from the antiques markets of Jingdezhen, an ancient city famous for it's blue and white porcelain and imperial kilns. While its design was orginally meant to rinse Chinese Calligraphy Brushes, it's sized perfectly to fit a wine bottle! We can imagine a million other uses for this beautiful piece, such as Kitchen Canister, Makeup Brush Holder or Silverware Holder. In the Chinese tradition, potters draw direct inspiration from designs from the past, so we choose pieces to represent the best design, regardless of age. Auspicious images that hearken to the earliest designs in blue and white from the Yuan, to the early modern wares of the Qing - each piece is just as valid a treasure as the original that inspired it. The artisits that create these pieces are passionate and study their beauty by strolling antiques