Ceramic & Glass

Cobalt blue on white porcelain, a boy riding a qilin around a ginger jar. Chinese porcelain, glazed pottery and glass make up most of the ceramics here, with Japanese porcelain and a Dutch Art Nouveau style casket. From Jingdezhen, the porcelain city of Jiangxi, come a 19th century censer and contemporary glazed vessels; from the Qing dynasty, a blue and white lidded ginger jar. Shanxi wine and storage vessels of the early 19th century, impressed and glazed, carry the plainer weight of country kilns.

There are Yixing teapots, a crackle glaze mei ping vase, a Zhejiang crackle bowl, eggshell porcelain vases from Nanyang, Peking glass vases and a crystal Tibetan lotus offering bowl. A Satsuma moon flask painted with samurai and courtesans comes from 19th century Japan, and a porcelain vase dated 1975 was made in honor of Mao Zedong. Set a ginger jar on a sideboard or line storage jars along a pantry shelf. Glaze is the one finish that never needs polishing.