Chinese Lidded Wedding Ginger Jar Depicting Shuangxi (Double Happiness) Character and Foliate Scroll Design

Double happiness on both sides, and a carved stand to make the point from below.

This lidded wedding ginger jar depicting Shuangxi (Double Happiness) character and foliate scroll design comes from China and dates to the Qing Dynasty (1644 – 1912 CE). It is porcelain with cobalt paint. Ginger jars bearing the Shuangxi, the doubled character for joy, were traditionally given at weddings. The swelling body is painted with large blue Shuangxi characters among fine tendrils and small blossoms, each character resting on a lotus-like flower. A wave-scroll band circles the shoulder below a flat lid. It is shown on a carved wooden stand. It is 10 inches high and 9.75 in diameter.

Good news, painted large.